About this role

About Aladdin Data

Aladdin Data is the foundation of the Aladdin platform, delivering trusted, scalable, and high‑quality data solutions that power investment decision‑making across BlackRock and its global client base.

About the Product & Role

Our Enterprise Data Catalog is a foundational platform within the Aladdin Data ecosystem, designed to provide a unified, scalable, and intelligent layer for metadata management, data discovery, lineage, and governance across BlackRock. Built on top of the open-source DataHub platform, we are extending and customizing its capabilities to meet the scale, complexity, and regulatory needs of our business.

What you will do

As an Associate, Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in evolving this platform—enhancing core metadata services, extending native DataHub capabilities, and building a seamless, pluggable framework that integrates deeply with BlackRock’s data ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend applications using Java 11+, Spring Boot,



and related enterprise frameworks.
- Build and enhance REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven services for large-scale distributed systems.
- Contribute to architecture, design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Develop scalable data integration components using relational databases, SQL, and up-to-date data platforms.
- Work with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka or similar event-processing platforms.
- Implement caching and performance optimization patterns using technologies such as Redis.
- Support production stability through monitoring, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Product, Operations, and other Engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Promote engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, code quality, secure coding, observability, and documentation.

Required

📌 Backend Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate (Mumbai)
🏢 BlackRock
📍 Mumbai