About this role
This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionising private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio.
You will join the Private Markets Data Engineering group, a crossfunctional team responsible for transforming how the industry acquires, manages, and distributes private markets data using modern, scalable technology.
In this role, you will shape core products that sit at the heart of BlackRock’s data infrastructure. Your work will enable interoperability across BlackRock’s data estate by ensuring every internal system can reliably consume and reconcile consistent data.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing strong domain understanding and partnering with the business to translate problems into detailed requirements.
- Leading discovery to understand current workflows, data issues, and cross-system dependencies.
- Defining outcomefocused product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Analysing user needs, operational data, and feedback to identify opportunities and inform prioritisation.
- Working iteratively and sharing early feedback with stakeholders through-out the build process.
- Partnering with crossfunctional teams to align on priorities, dependencies, and delivery tradeoffs.
- Building strong relationships with internal users to support ongoing discovery and continuous improvement.
- Tracking and driving outcomes such as data quality, increased adoption across platforms, and reduced manual reconciliation effort.
Requirements:
- Experience participating in Agile ceremonies and collaborating within crossfunctional teams.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders to understand current processes and contribute to futurestate workflow design.
- Exceptional requirement definition skills, with a datadriven mindset and the ability to adapt expertise as domain understanding deepens.
- Comfortable using evidence, analysis, and user insights to make informed decisions and translate complex problem spaces into clear, outcomefocused requirements.
- Experience managing change across systems and teams, including stakeholder engagement and dependency alignment.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a dynamic environment.
- Strong attention to precision and accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
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. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
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 Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
