Associate - Data ImplementationData Implementation Specialist | Associate​/Vice Presidents

Overview

About this role

Aladdin Data - Solutions manages the continuous changes and development of Aladdin’s enterprise analytics data assets and production solutions and is responsible for the implementation of data and analytics solutions for Black Rock businesses and Aladdin clients.

The Aladdin Data platforms and services are designed to deliver industry leading investment data and risk analytics content to the Aladdin community, including Black Rock as the largest client. The primary users include investors, risk managers, compliance officials, investment operations, and technology teams for broader organization applications. We are proud to supply the data products and solutions to meet the evolving needs of portfolio management, risk and performance analysis, investment compliance, regulatory reporting, client reporting and beyond.

Our Data Implementation team of data solutions specialists covers end-to-end Aladdin data flows from vendor and client input data sets transformed and enriched into security, portfolio, benchmark, and financial analytics outputs for new and expanding Aladdin clients. The team works directly with clients and Aladdin Client Transformation specialists to understand client dependencies, business objectives and custom use cases to ensure Aladdin’s data and analytics are effectively enhanced, deployed, and adopted across each function and organization.

Our clients cover global, multi-asset managers or owners allocating across fixed income, equity, private markets, and derivatives. The team provides the data specialties across asset classes and data domains for the successful whole-portfolio modelling. Successful Aladdin data implementation specialists develop and excel in many cross-functional skills including client communication, project management, business analysis as well as hands-on data analysis and technology system configuration.

Innovation is at the core of Aladdin’s culture, and the team is continuously solutioning for our clients and re-engineering our processes.

At the forefront of evolving market and industry data needs, with each successful projects, we drive continuous developments and transformation initiatives to expand our solutions and advance our data products capabilities.

The team is looking for experienced investment data specialists to enhance and expand our capabilities to capture the growth opportunities with a strong business pipeline. The successful candidates will contribute to or be directly responsible for one or multiple projects, across all data domains and capabilities.

• Drive client engagement, scope of work review, requirements collection and project planning for the data management workstream of new Aladdin implementations
• Manage data workstream progress and communications with clients and partners to ensure successful delivery of critical milestones along the project plan.
• Collaborate with client investment, technology, and data professionals to ensure alignment and clarity of data scope, mapping, normalization, and implementation approaches.
• Educate and guide clients on Aladdin data conventions and target state data management workflows inclusive of on-site training for client data teams.
• Use standard interfaces and configurable elements to facilitate the onboarding of client data from clients directly and/or third-party data providers.
• Partner with front-office and investment process practice leads to configure investment portfolio structure, benchmark assignments, and establish proper risk analytics deliverables.
• Manage systematic data reconciliation and reviews and drive the resolution of issues with internal data owners, external vendors, and/or the development of solutions with clients and partners.
• Partner with Analytics Stewards to ensure valuation and risk analytics results are comprehensive and up to market and modelling standard.
• Manage client requirements, provide critical business, and technical analysis to development partners in data stewards, production solutions and engineering functions for new data and solutions development. Provide validation and directly manage the client UAT.
• Create…