Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

About this role

Introduction to EII:

BlackRock’s ETF and Index Investments (EII) business is built from the union of Beta Strategies and iShares®. EII is the leading index investment engine in the world with over $3 Trillion in assets under management. We help investors build better portfolios with the industry’s leading suite of index investment tools. We enable them to replace individual securities, to take short-term market views, to invest cash rapidly, to execute more efficiently than swaps, futures or individual bonds, to take long-term core positions and to construct efficient portfolios.

We are the best in the world at building and managing efficient index tools for our clients. We serve every kind of investor: pensions, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, asset managers, wealth advisors and individual investors.

We are a team that recognizes strength comes from diversity and embrace technical expertise and curiosity equally. We are focused on delivering commercial outcomes and are passionate about building outstanding products. At BlackRock, we embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and non-technically as an individual.

With over USD $10 trillion of assets under management, we have an exceptional responsibility: our products and technology empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their general financial wellbeing.

Your Team and Role:

The Data Science and Insights team within ACSS (Aladdin Client Sales & Solutions) leverages technology and data to develop models and actionable insights to power how we engage with our client data around the world.

The team partners closely with our Product and Engineering teams to build technology products, as well as with our Sales and Digital Distribution teams (the iShares Americas Client Analytics being one of them within EII), to ensure that data science and analytics are delivered with the highest business impact. You will also partner with internal technology teams on infrastructure, tools, processes, standards, and development, as well as other data science and analytics teams across the organization.

The VP Americas Client Insights role will sit within the ACSS Data Science and Insights team and have a dotted line to the Americas Head of Client Insights & Analytics for the iShares business. They would take direction and prioritize projects related to providing insights on who (the client) and what (the product) BlackRock sells providing a pulse on the health of the business backed by data-driven insights and progress towards a prescriptive approach for business decision making.

The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and insights, comfortable working across a range of technology capabilities, including databases, software, and infrastructure, and a love for solving complex problems and delivering commercial-minded business solutions.

Your Responsibilities May Include:

• Develop a deep understanding of the iShares client and product landscape across the Americas. Be prepared to dive into disparate high-volume datasets coming from client feeds, regulatory filings, 3rd party vendors and industry databases to help refine the client data platform along with relevant business context.
• Work on surfacing key trends entrenched in client/product data across multiple business channels and time periods. Work closely with the Americas iShares Client Analytics team to funnel these insights into existing client dashboards along with cutting-edge NLP technologies to paraphrase narrative around insights delivery.
• Use machine learning techniques to help design forward-looking components on client data in conjunction with capital markets datasets to be consumed for business planning and strategy. In addition, research and develop ad-hoc models to improve lead generation, customer segmentation, client propensity models, recommendation engines, and other data science products to power selling to and servicing BlackRock’s clients around the Americas.
• Work with Engineering and Product teams to implement models and insights in production applications used by sales management, strategy, product etc.
• Develop, own, and evangelize key product and business metrics.
• May be called upon to create high visibility dashboards, reports, and visualizations to ensure the timely and effective story telling of valuable metrics and actionable insights.
• Collaborate with other members of the data science and analytics community across the firm on best practices, code review, internal tools and process improvements.

Some of the skills you should have:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Math, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Physics, Engineering or another quantitative field
• Highly quantitative, with a keen eye for teasing out insights from high-volume datasets.
• Proficiency in SQL for querying data
• Deep knowledge of model and algorithm development (mathematical and statistical knowledge) and expertise with either Python or R
• Basic understanding of experimental design (such as A/B experiments) and statistical methods
• Experience of developing data solutions such as ETLs, databases, API’s to both source and provide data, and automation a plus
• Experience with Hadoop stack (HIVE, Pig, Hadoop streaming) and Spark a plus
• Experience in Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI or similar for delivery of management information and reporting a plus
• Experience in Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, BigQuery and other related digital analytics platforms a plus
• Experience in Consumer, Client, or Business, or Marketing Analytics preferred especially in financial services (B2B).
• The ability to effectively collaborate with and present to both technical and non-technical partners
• Intellectual curiosity and a commercial mindset to all business solutions provided.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

About BlackRock

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: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.