Vice President, Database Engineer
Location: Wilmington
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
The Aladdin® product unites the information, people, and
technology needed to manage money in real-time at every step in the
investment process. Aladdin enables organizations to communicate
better, work smarter, see clearer, and move faster in a changing
landscape. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with
comprehensive portfolio management, trading and operations tools on
a single platform to power informed decision-making and create
connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide. Your
team The Database Engineering team is an integral part of Platform
Hosting Services within the Aladdin Engineering Group. Platform
Hosting Services is responsible for the reliability, stability, and
performance of the firms financial systems, including Aladdin,
ensuring their availability to our business partners and customers.
Our team’s primary focus is to deliver resilient, scalable, and
high-performing database platforms by leveraging automation,
software engineering, and modern DevOps practices. Your role and
impact: Data is the backbone of any world-class financial
institution. The Database Operations Team is tasked with ensuring
the resiliency and integrity of that data, whilst providing
instantaneous access to a large global user base at BlackRock and
across many Institutional Clients. As preeminent specialists on
database technology, our team is involved in every facet of system
design, implementation, tuning and monitoring, using a wide variety
of industry-leading database technologies. We also develop code to
provide analysis and insight and to automate & scale our solutions.
Although the team’s specialty is database technology, in order to
excel in our role, we need to understand the environment that our
technology operates in; understanding of the business needs, the
application server stack, the interaction between the database
software, the operating system and host hardware are significant
factors allowing us to deliver the best service possible. We are
passionate about performance and innovation. From the top of the
firm down, we embrace the diversity of values, identities and ideas
brought forth by our employees and offer phenomenal flexibility to
enhance work life balance. Your responsibilities: • Design,
develop, and maintain automation tools and frameworks for database
provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance. • Build
APIs and self-service platforms to empower internal teams to manage
database resources efficiently. • Engineer solutions for database
configuration management, schema migrations, capacity planning, and
disaster recovery. • Develop monitoring, alerting, and analytics
systems to ensure database reliability and performance. •
Collaborate with operational DBAs to identify manual processes and
automate them using code. • Participate in incident response and
root-cause analysis, developing tools to prevent recurrence. •
Contribute to the adoption of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code
practices within the database team. You have… • Strong programming
skills in Python, Go, or Java, with experience building
production-grade automation or tooling. • Experience with database
platforms such as Apache Cassandra, CosmosDB, Microsoft SQL Server,
SAP Sybase ASE, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and data warehouse platforms
like SAP Sybase IQ, Greenplum, and Snowflake. • Familiarity with
data replication offerings like Sybase Rep, MSSQL HA, HVR
(FiveTran). • Experience with public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS,
GCP) and their database offerings. Knowledge of source control
systems (GIT, Azure DevOps) and CI/CD pipelines. • Experience with
automation tools like Ansible/AWX and operating systems like Linux
and Windows. • Experience developing monitoring, alerting, or
analytics solutions for infrastructure or databases. • A passion
for automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a drive to
innovate. • A belief in data-driven analysis and problem solving,
and the drive to scale technology to the needs of tomorrow. If you
are excited about using software engineering to transform database
operations at scale, we want to talk to you about joining our team.
For Wilmington, DE Only the salary range for this position is
USD$138,000.00 - USD$186,500.00 . Additionally, employees are
eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including
heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock
operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your
total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm,
department and individual performance. To help you stay energized,
engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a
strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive
healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO)
so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care
about. 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.
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