Director, Aladdin Solutions Product Architect

About this role

Overview

The Aladdin Solutions Product Architect is a senior, product-focused role responsible for shaping and delivering Aladdin-powered solutions for complex investment and trading workflows. The role partners across the business and Aladdin product & engineering teams to translate business problems into scalable, platform-aligned solutions. This is a high-impact role for someone who is energized by solving hard problems, operating across organizational lines, and turning ambiguity into action. The role offers a strong platform to demonstrate horizontal leadership through influence, partnership, and outcome-oriented execution.

Role Mission

Lead end-to-end solution design and execution for strategic initiatives by translating complex workflows into scalable Aladdin designs, driving co-build delivery across teams, and ensuring alignment to platform principles, APIs, and long-term architecture.

This team will operate as a unified partner with BlackRock business teams to shape and deliver some of the firm’s most critical and market-transformational workflows. The work will largely center on complex, multi-year strategic initiatives that require deep partnership across business, product, and engineering teams to redesign how investment and trading workflows are automated at scale.

• Fully automating the equity index order generation process.

• Fully automating FX trading workflows.

• Significantly increasing automation across the cash investment lifecycle, including PM and trading workflows.

• Evolving how order generation is automated by better leveraging market liquidity and platform intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with BlackRock business and Aladdin product stakeholders to design target-state solutions for complex, cross-functional workflows.

• Define what belongs in Aladdin versus business-owned technology, including APIs, data models, and end-to-end workflow design.

• Drive co-build execution across product and engineering teams, resolving dependencies and translating designs into build-ready requirements.

• Provide initiative leadership across design, build, and early production, with clear ownership, sequencing, and decision-making.

• Act as a senior partner to stakeholders across BGM and Aladdin, aligning teams and driving forward decisions.

• Ensure solutions follow Aladdin engineering standards and support scalable, reusable platform outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8–15+ years in product management, business analysis, solution architecture, or related implementation roles.

• Experience across front-office investment workflows, including portfolio management, trading, and operations.

• Strong Aladdin platform expertise or comparable OMS / investment platform experience.

• Strong API and AI fluency, with the ability to take an API-first and AI-first approach to problem solving, workflow design, and solution architecture.

• Demonstrated ability to challenge conventional approaches and help the business push boundaries in how API- and AI-enabled solutions are designed and adopted.

• Ability to bridge business needs and technical design while influencing senior stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving, ownership, and execution skills in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Role Scope

• This is a senior, horizontal role focused on strategic, cross-functional initiatives.

• It is not a traditional single-domain PM, BA, or pure program management role.

• The role is focused on execution and solution delivery, not BAU support or incremental enhancements.

Measures of Success

• Faster delivery of strategic initiatives and speed to value.

• Reduced cross-team friction and clearer ownership across delivery.

• Adoption of scalable, reusable platform solutions with successful transition to steady state.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.