Analyst – Production Delivery
Company | BlackRock |
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Location | Wilmington, DE, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad, Junior, Mid Level |
Requirements
- 0-5 years’ experience in hands-on data operations including data pipeline monitoring and engineering.
- Bachelor’s Degree is required, with preference to business disciplines such as Finance, Accounting, or Economics, and technical disciplines such as Information Systems or Engineering.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
- Excellent understanding of data quality assurance processes and methodologies.
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities, with a track record of working cross-functionally.
- The ability to operate within and monitor large data sets at scale.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and manage data pipelines to ensure the timely and accurate flow of financial and accounting data.
- Designs and implements processes and procedures to ensure the security of the firm’s and clients’ data.
- Creates and maintains systems for client and product information to support trading, settlement and other operations processes.
- May be involved in developing tools and processes used to maintain a common, firm-wide data standard.
- Proactively identify and resolve data issues, ensuring data integrity.
- Conduct regular quality checks to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of financial and accounting data.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Stewardship teams to discuss and implement improvements in data quality and processes.
- Investigate and resolve data anomalies, discrepancies, or errors promptly, ensuring minimal impact on downstream operations.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to address and rectify issues affecting data pipeline performance.
- Monitor and optimize throughput to meet established service level agreements (SLAs).
- Provide recommendations for improvements in data processing efficiency and system reliability.
- Gain broad experience in Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Alternatives, across the vast global investment marketplace.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of data operations processes, monitoring procedures, and issue resolution protocols.
- Ensure documentation is up to date to facilitate knowledge transfer and training.
- Initiate and drive platform and process innovations to support new business needs, minimize risk, enhance quality, and navigate the changing markets.
- Flexibility to work occasional weekends and holidays as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Basic knowledge of SQL, UNIX, or Python is a plus; desire to expand technical expertise preferred.
- Basic knowledge of fixed income, equity and derivative instruments is a plus.
- Experience with Project Management and familiarity with Agile methodology is a plus.