About this role
Business Overview:
The Mission Control team within Aladdin Platforms is responsible for monitoring, supporting, and administering production environments for all BlackRock businesses (including subsidiaries and BlackRock Solutions clients). The scope of responsibility covers but is not limited to building and supporting key ServiceNow modules leveraged across the firm, developing Observability solutions for monitoring and alerting, and contributing to business-critical batch orchestrators and data transfer services.
Role Responsibility
Designing, coding, testing, and supporting reliable, robust software applications and services with high-quality standards.
Toolset Development: Create, maintain and enhance software and applications.
Performing code reviews and providing timely feedback to other engineers.
Supporting observability platforms such as Splunk, Grafana to ensure they scale for the firms needs and using them to conduct analysis on system performance, root cause diagnostics, and systems’/applications’ design to understand and improve the operating quality of production environments.
Developing and modifying ServiceNow catalogs, workflows, forms, lists, business rules, UI components etc.
Collaborating with product owners and stakeholder on the right units of work to be included during sprint planning.
Communications: Engaging in clear and concise communication both verbally and in writing. Ability to represent the team in calls with different stakeholders and gathering feedback to be relayed back to other developers in the team.
Qualifications:
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
1+ years of software development experience in JavaScript, Python or Core Java (Spring Framework).
Skills & Experience:
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Ability to work under pressure and take ownership of software delivery.
Ability to work with teams spread across geographies.
Possess a positive attitude and ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
Be curious and flexible, pay keen attention to detail, use critical thinking and drive innovation.
Continually learn new technologies.
Good to have experience with Agile development concepts and related tools.
Good to have experience with Object oriented programming concepts & relational or NoSQL database.
Our benefits
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.
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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
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