Access & Identity Management Engineer, Analyst / Princeton, NJ

About this role

Your team

The Access and Identity Management team is part of Global Information Security and is responsible for helping protect the firm's information, systems, and cloud environments. The team partners with business, technology, and security stakeholders to establish and maintain identity and access controls across enterprise platforms. Team members play a key role in supporting secure access, strengthening governance processes, and driving continuous improvement initiatives that help safeguard critical technology resources. The Access & Identity Management (AIM) Governance team is responsible for ensuring that user access across BlackRock's applications, platforms, data repositories, and privileged environments remains appropriate, compliant, and aligned with business needs. The team owns and operates BlackRock's access recertification program, providing oversight of user entitlements and access governance controls across Aladdin, non-Aladdin applications, privileged access, cloud platforms, and unstructured data environments.

Your role and impact

The AIM Governance Administrator is responsible for supporting BlackRock’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) governance program by administering access entitlement reviews and maintaining access controls across a broad range of enterprise systems. This role helps ensure compliance with information security policies, regulatory requirements, and audit standards by delivering effective access governance, user administration, reporting, and audit support.

The position requires strong attention to detail, a commitment to operational excellence, and the ability to collaborate with business partners, auditors, and technology teams to maintain a secure and compliant access management environment.

Your responsibilities

In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and embrace the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies while challenging outcomes. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

• Administer entitlement reviews covering a wide variety of systems including, but not limited to, 3rd party hosted apps, in-house apps, unstructured data, NTFS Shared Folders and privileged access to ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Managing user accounts, permissions and entitlements in Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, UNIX, Cloud (Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP), 600+ business applications and BlackRock’s state-of-the-art trading and asset management platform, Aladdin.
• Responsible for generating and providing access reports and audit evidence for both our business partners and Internal Audit teams. 
• Monitor and report on IAM metrics
• Support internal and external audits to demonstrate compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies.
• Read, understand, and follow all written instructions regarding the administration of entitlement reviews.
• Maintain detailed documentation for access review procedures.

Your experience

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution OR three years of relevant experience is required
• Experience performing access entitlement reviews within required service level agreements
• Experience working with auditors in an IAM capacity
• Knowledge of enterprise-level Identity Management systems (e.g. SailPoint IdentityIQ, Brainwave, Okta).
• Experience performing user administration in a Windows Active Directory environment, and Microsoft Azure Entra ID.
• Experience in granting NTFS permissions for folders/files in a Windows Distributed File System Environment.
• Knowledge of Exchange administration Exchange Admin Center (both ECP, EAC): creating and maintaining mailboxes, distribution lists, contacts and public folders.
• Knowledge of Information Security principles and ability to adhere to SSAE16 and SOX audit requirements pertaining to Identity & Access Management (Role-Based Access Control, access governance, detail-oriented, obtaining, and documenting approvals, etc).
• Intermediate Excel skills, including data analysis with pivot tables, advanced formulas (e.g., VLOOKUP, COUNTIF)
• Experience with ticketing/workflow management tools (e.g. ServiceNow, JIRA).
• Basic familiarity with UNIX command-line execution.
• Familiarity with PowerShell commands in AD, Office 365 and on-prem Exchange, individually and in bulk and the potential of writing further commands when needed.
• Familiarity with running and writing SQL select queries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage priorities and workflows effectively.

For Princeton, NJ Only the salary range for this position is USD$99,750.00 - USD$120,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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.

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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.