Platform Engineer

About this role

Overview

Fundamental Equities is building a tech-enabled platform to support tool-building and workflow innovation across the Product Strategy function. Our goal is to enable a growing community of citizen developers to build smarter, faster, and more consistently while maintaining the guardrails, performance, and reusability that come with scaled solutions.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll be a key architect and cultural steward, defining shared design principles, elevating development standards, and shaping how we scale. You'll not only build technology but also help build an ecosystem for citizen developers across FE Product Strategy.

What You'll Do (Phased Roadmap)

Phase 1: Tactical Foundations

• Lead citizen developer community to stabilize, refactor, and document existing solutions.
• Build shared libraries and core connectors to eliminate duplication and improve maintainability.
• Begin establishing platform-wide design principles and reusable scaffolding.
• Lead forums and create workflows to surface promising tools, evaluate their impact, and help scale them across teams.
• Act as a citizen developer, building platform tools tied to our strategic objectives    

Phase 2: Platform Enablement

• Develop a configuration-driven framework to help citizen developers build scalable solutions.
• Establish and evolve a prioritization framework to assess ROI and guide investment in platform capabilities.
• Partner laterally with teams in MASS, FFI, and PAG to identify shared challenges, co-develop solutions, and align on best practices.
• Strengthen culture in local offices,  possibly including indirect reporting lines, to foster unity and shared ownership.

Over time, you'll help evolve the platform into a durable, self-sustaining ecosystem equipped with clear standards, shared tooling, and a connected developer community.

Who You Are

• Experienced Software Engineer (7-11 years) with a background in platform engineering, internal tooling, or developer experience.
• Comfortable working across Python and front-end stacks (e.g., Streamlit).
• Familiar with data platforms like Snowflake or dbt, and how to build reliable services on top of them.
• Experienced in building or leveraging third-party APIs to connect tools, services, or data sources across systems.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate) is a plus—not required, but a willingness to grow into it is expected.
• Equally passionate about technical excellence and team enablement—you design with both scale and accessibility in mind.
• Comfortable building the structures that drive high performance coding culture, including documentation, training, and shared standards.
• Skilled collaborator across technical and non-technical stakeholders, with experience navigating matrixed organizations.

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.

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