Financial Services Tech Consulting Manager - WAM - Aladdin
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listed on 2026-01-04
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IT/Tech
IT Consultant, Systems Analyst
Location:
New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Charlotte and Washington
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.
EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management and Insurance.
Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing, and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!
You will leverage your extensive Black Rock Aladdin expertise to design, implement, and support cutting‑edge investment management solutions. Collaborating with cross‑functional teams, you will configure innovative workflows, manage seamless integrations, and ensure a smooth transition to the Aladdin platform, all while maintaining peak operational efficiency and compliance alignment. Your deep technical knowledge of Aladdin, combined with strategic leadership, will drive multiple high‑impact implementation projects across trading, compliance, portfolio management, and post‑trade functions.
As a platform owner and delivery leader, you will partner with senior stakeholders across technology and business teams to ensure Aladdin solutions are robust, scalable, and perfectly aligned with the firm’s strategic vision. This role blends hands‑on project leadership with the opportunity to shape the long‑term roadmap within a dynamic and rapidly growing investment organization.
Your key responsibilities- Define overall project plan and lead multiple Aladdin implementation and enhancement projects end‑to‑end, from requirements through deployment and stabilization
- Lead Black Rock migration activities including environment readiness, data migration, regression testing and coordinating with infrastructure teams
- Define the Aladdin and Aladdin Data Cloud implementation roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that improve efficiency, data quality and compliance
- Drive and oversee Aladdin platform configuration, compliance rule setup, workflows, and integration points across modules
- Document Black Rock Client provided use‑cases into a use‑case catalogue
- Review asset class workflows provided by Black Rock Client to support organization of asset class prioritization plans within the Project Plan
- Assist Black Rock with creating/maintaining project key issue tracker to log & triage issues, liaising with Aladdin Client Transformation (ACT) teams to coordinate and drive for issue resolution
- Assist Black Rock with Governance reports (including status meeting updates, upcoming period deliverables, past due project items, percent task completion, and identifying responsible parties)
- Project Closure Report including Black Rock Client sign‑offs of the deliverables at the end of the project
- Manage a team of business analysts, providing mentorship, technical guidance and professional development opportunities
- Lead cross‑functional communication between front, middle and back‑office teams, translating complex technical topics into clear business language
- Promote best practices in system configuration, change management and delivery methodology ensuring consistent project execution across teams
- Stay current on Aladdin product enhancements, new modules and industry trends to proactively identify opportunities for system improvement and automation
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