Lead Software Engineer (VP)

This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionizing private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio.

As a VP, Software Engineer, you'll be leading an engineering pod within a business unit - with responsibility for technical and operational quality and an intense focus on building the right solutions for our customers. Data literacy, product awareness, communication and leadership are core parts of your skillset. You'll also work as part of a wider Engineering leadership group, helping to set the technical direction within the team, ensure we design, deliver and maintain a technology platform that is scalable, reliable, performant, and extensible. You'll work directly with product managers to ideate and develop new features and actively take part in conversations about new product directions, technical and data architecture and software quality.

In this role you will:

• Lead an engineering pod using strong leadership and influence skills. While the role does not have people leadership responsibility, you'll work closely with the Engineering Manager to ensure your pod is high performing.
• Champion a curious and diligent engineering mindset to enhance our platform capabilities.
• Work in partnership with Product to discover customer needs and play a leading role in ideation.
• Build performant and reliable backend services and data processes on AWS.
• Create accessible and powerful front-end web experiences for our customers.
• Drive an automation testing mindset within the team, striking the balance between quality and delivery and reducing the dependency on manual testing.
• Execute your ability to translate complex ideas into understandable language for your non-technical colleagues across marketing, design and sales.
• Be instrumental to continuously improving our working environment, teams, product quality, and yourself.

You are a good fit if:

• You have strong leadership skills that enable you to lead and motivate a team through influence.
• You possess strong technical ability across the fullstack: React and any typed backend programming language.
• You have driven technical solution design, taking the balance of engineering quality, testing, scalability and security into consideration.
• You are customer obsessed! You are comfortable speaking to customers and clients to understand their needs and are energized about working in a continuous discovery environment, constantly listening, iterating, refining and adapting.
• You have deep knowledge and experience of working within cloud provider services - AWS is preferred, and utilisation of infrastructure as code.
• You have implemented (or have experience using) Continuous Delivery pipelines for frequent live deployments, developing effective automated tests to ensure confidence.
• You have driven automation testing across unit, integration, browser and contract tests to create confidence in our solutions and services.
• You are value driven - the value of what we deliver is at the forefront of your mind and you use metrics and data to inform this.
• You're curious; willing to learn about new technologies, ways of working and acquire new skills in a truly "agile" mindset.

Our benefits include a wide range of employee benefits such as retirement investment tools, education reimbursement, resources to support physical health and emotional well-being, family support programs, and Flexible Time Off (FTO).

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.