Senior Software Engineer

• Company

  BlackRock

• Location

  USA-NY-New York City

• Remuneration

  Not Specified

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  23-Oct-2013

• eFC Ref no

  1297455

  The Aladdin Product Group develops and supports every facet of BlackRock's information systems needs. Our global teams perform a wide variety of activities from maintaining system stability to growing the features and functionality of our state-of the-art trading and asset management platform, Aladdin. The

 
The Aladdin Product Group develops and supports every facet of BlackRock's information systems needs. Our global teams perform a wide variety of activities from maintaining system stability to growing the features and functionality of our state-of the-art trading and asset management platform, Aladdin. The breath of our responsibilities calls for a diverse range of expertise.

Team Overview

The Software Engineering Team is a global team of approximately 20 software engineers working across 5 core development locations around the world.  The group's key responsibilities are : documentation and promotion of best practices; facilitation of training and skill development; development and support of tools, frameworks, and core libraries; and consulting and troubleshooting. The team is therefore involved with working on a wide range of technologies, tools and frameworks creating great opportunities for enhancing and development new skills

Job Purpose

The purpose of the role is to facilitate efficient and consistent development processes and tools within the organization. This results in a more maintainable codebase, with a greater degree of transparency and results in more accurate and reliable software upon which to manage the nearly $13 Trillion of AUM on our systems.

Role Responsibility

• Maintain and establish software best practices to be used globally across the enterprise
• Develop and enhance core libraries which form the bedrock for all the firm's software development platforms
• Provide support and guidance to other developers across all development groups
• Provide new developers on-boarding and technical training
• Support, maintain and provide governance over all of the developer tools (SCCS, build, issue tracking, etc).
• Assist developers in debugging complex issues

Experience

• At least 6 years professional experience in Software Development
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field
• Software Development experience with Java 3+ years including Java/J2EE-Web application Development experience
• Strong understanding of the Unix operating system
• Build system tools, Ant, Ivy, nmake, Hudson and general dependency / library management knowledge  
• Proven track record of problem solving and debugging of complex configuration management issues
• Experience in Source Code Management, preferably using Subversion
• Strong knowledge of interacting with databases (ability to write queries and joins). The ideal candidate should have worked extensively with Sybase
• A clear and comprehensive understanding of the full development lifecycle from Analysis through to Development and Testing with experience of both Configuration and Release Management.
• Ability to multitask, maintaining composure in high-visibility situations
• Clear and concise communication skills, both verbally and in writing. Interacts in a cooperative manner with co-workers from around the globe
• Experience in Perl and or C++/C# development would be advantageous ,
• Some exposure to the following tools and technologies would be advantageous: Javascript, AJAX, DHTML, CSS, JBoss, XML / XSLT,
 
Manager Comments

Working as part of a group within the Development Services area provides us with a wide exposure to different technologies, tools and languages as well as the  opportunity to meet and interact with a spectrum of different people across the firm.  As the group provide support for the entire development community the role can be both challenging and rewarding.  Within our group we have a degree of freedom to influence the future direction of how software is developed and managed at BlackRock.

Other

- Travel : No
- Direct Reports: No
- Licences: No


BlackRock is proud to be an E-Verify & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer--M/F/D/V.


BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions -- from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

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