Director - Data Stewardship

About this role

About Aladdin Data (AD)

Data is at the heart of Aladdin and increasingly the ability to acquire, govern, analyze, and derive insights from data is a key differentiator for BlackRock and our clients. The Aladdin Data (AD) team is responsible for the firm's data ecosystem, ensuring data can be discovered, trusted, accessed, and used effectively across investment, operations, analytics, AI, and client solutions.

Our mission is to build and operate the capabilities, governance, and workflows that enable data producers and consumers across BlackRock to efficiently share and leverage high-quality data at scale.

AD supports four strategic outcomes that together advance BlackRock's data strategy:

• Deliver high-quality, trusted data products and services that power investment processes, operational workflows, and client solutions.

• Enable data producers to publish and distribute data through a scalable marketplace, making both Aladdin and BlackRock-generated content easily discoverable and consumable.

• Provide well-governed data that fuels AI, analytics, and emerging digital capabilities across the firm.

• Offer common standards, tooling, governance, and reusable services that allow teams to focus on creating business value rather than building bespoke data infrastructure.

The team builds common standards, governance, tooling and reusable services that help data producers publish high-quality data and help consumers find, trust and use it without building bespoke infrastructure.

About this role

We are building a new organization within Aladdin Data: the BlackRock Data Office, focused on enabling trusted, reusable and AI-ready data across Technology & Operations.

The BlackRock Data Office will serve as the central team responsible for accelerating how data is onboarded, governed, managed and consumed through the firm's Data Marketplace. Working with domain teams, engineers, product teams and business stakeholders, the team will establish scalable stewardship, governance and data product practices that allow data to be managed as a strategic enterprise asset.

We are seeking a Director, Data Stewardship to play a critical leadership role in establishing and scaling data stewardship across Technology & Operations.

This individual will be responsible for driving data ownership, governance, quality and accountability across strategic data domains, ensuring that data is trusted, discoverable, reusable and fit for operational, analytical and AI-driven use cases.

Core Responsibilities

• Act as the senior Data Steward for one or more strategic Technology & Operations data domains.

• Partner with business, product and engineering leaders to establish data ownership, accountability and governance standards.

• Drive adoption of data governance, metadata, lineage, quality and data product standards across multiple organizations.

• Champion the onboarding, governance and lifecycle management of data products within the Data Marketplace.

• Define, monitor and report on data quality metrics, controls and remediation activities.

• Lead prioritization and resolution of critical data risks, quality issues and control gaps.

• Establish governance forums, stewardship processes and operating models that scale across Technology & Operations.

• Influence senior stakeholders and domain leaders to improve data accountability and drive organizational change.

• Mentor and guide a federated community of data stewards, data product owners and domain experts.

• Support the delivery of trusted, well-governed and AI-ready data products that can be reused across the firm.

• Represent Technology & Operations data interests within enterprise governance, regulatory and data strategy initiatives.

• Help shape the long-term vision and operating model of the BlackRock Data Office.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering, Data Management, Business or a related discipline.

• 12+ years of experience in Data Stewardship, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Strategy or related disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale data governance and stewardship programs.

• Experience driving data ownership, accountability and governance across large, matrixed organizations.

• Experience with enterprise data catalogs, metadata management and lineage platforms (e.g., DataHub, Collibra, Informatica, EDC or similar).

• Strong knowledge of database technologies, data warehousing, cloud data platforms, and modern data architectures, including experience with platforms such as Snowflake and equivalent enterprise data ecosystems.

• Serve as the accountable steward for the governance, quality, discoverability and AI-readiness of assigned data domains.

• Strong SQL skills with the ability to query, analyze, validate, and troubleshoot complex datasets, investigate data quality issues, and partner effectively with engineering and data teams on remediation and governance initiatives.

• Strong understanding of data products, modern data platforms and data marketplace concepts.

• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, including engagement with senior business and technology leaders.

• Experience within financial services, asset management, banking or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred.

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.

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 Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.