Director - Hyperion Platform Lead, Software Engineering

About this role

Your team

Hyperion is BlackRock’s strategic platform for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled processing of unstructured data, with a particular focus on Private Markets. The platform enables internal customers, and ultimately external customers, to build scalable data-processing workflows across documents, news articles, websites, and other unstructured sources.

You will join BlackRock’s Private Markets Data Engineering organisation and lead the development of the Hyperion platform, working closely with engineering and business leaders across Aladdin and other areas of BlackRock. The team is focused on turning complex, unstructured information into scalable data capabilities that support Private Markets workflows.

Your role and impact

You will provide senior technical and people leadership for Hyperion, shaping a scalable, production-grade platform capable of processing millions of documents, news articles, and websites. You will set architectural direction, make strategic engineering trade-offs, and establish the practices required to operate a business-critical platform with reliability and trust.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management and cross-functional influence. You will partner with Aladdin leaders and internal platform teams to establish strategic priorities, support early adopters, and evolve Hyperion towards an intuitive, self-service platform for developers and non-technical users.

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 combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

• Own the technical leadership and architectural direction for Hyperion, making strategic trade-offs, solving complex engineering challenges, and evaluating innovative technologies in partnership with engineering and business leaders.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery and sustained production operation of this business-critical platform, with accountability for scalability, reliability, performance, operational resilience, and stakeholder trust.
• Collaborate with Aladdin leaders to define Hyperion’s strategic direction and priorities, translating them into a clear and actionable engineering roadmap.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineers while remaining close to the technology, fostering an inclusive culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Build strong partnerships with internal platform teams to co-design architecture, align technical approaches, and deliver shared platform capabilities.
• Design Hyperion to support early adopters while evolving the platform towards intuitive, self-service capabilities for both developers and non-technical users.
• Establish and maintain high standards of engineering excellence across security, software quality, documentation, testing, governance, operational resilience, and sustainable platform development.

Your experience

• 10+ years of experience designing, launching, and owning enterprise-scale, production-grade platforms in business-critical environments, with a track record of delivering reliability, performance, accountability, and stakeholder trust.
• Strong senior-level technical judgement and analytical problem-solving skills, with experience making architectural and prioritisation trade-offs across scalability, cost, governance, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
• Advanced expertise in distributed systems and workflow orchestration, including the design of scalable data-processing architectures.
• Proficiency in Python for data pipelines, orchestration, and automation, supported by strong software engineering practices including version control, testing, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Advanced expertise in modern platform engineering, including infrastructure-as-code and enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, together with related cloud-native technologies.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers while fostering an inclusive engineering culture centred on ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Exposure to AI-enabled processing of unstructured data and experience in financial markets are desirable.

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.