BlackRock
Data Platform Architect, Architecture – Aladdin Data
$215K–$275K
NY7 - 50 Hudson Yards, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- Extensive experience; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Defines architectural direction and helps deliver scalable, reliable Aladdin data platforms and AI capabilities across engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Set target architecture and technical guardrails for data platforms, APIs, SDKs, shared services, and data models.
- Guide AI and agent-based platform capabilities for structured and unstructured data, including retrieval, governance, and workload orchestration.
- Partner across engineering, product, and operations to implement designs and improve platform reliability, performance, security, and developer productivity.
What they ask for
- Extensive experience in data platform architecture, data engineering, distributed systems, or related disciplines, designing enterprise data platforms.
- Experience designing governed AI and unstructured-data platforms and high-performance data services and APIs.
- Technical fluency in data modeling, SQL, Python or Java, reusable packages, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Architecture leadership across areas including workflow orchestration, operations, release management, observability, cloud infrastructure, and delivery platforms; ability to influence stakeholders and work in financial services or another regulated industry.
Pay
USD$215,000.00 - USD$275,000.00 base salary (NY7 - 50 Hudson Yards, New York only)
Tools
SQL, Python, Java, object storage, vector or graph technologies, distributed event streaming and messaging platforms, stateful stream and batch data processing engines, cloud infrastructure
AI focus
Shape platform capabilities for AI and agent-based applications across structured and unstructured data, including metadata, retrieval, governance, application development, and workload orchestration.
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