Automation and Development of database operational, monitoring and maintenance toolsets to achieve the desired Scale and Efficiency.Collaboration with Infrastructure teams, application developers and business teams across multiple time zones to ensure the highest quality service to the Aladdin users.Engineering, Administration and Operations of OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehousing database platforms and distributed No-SQL platforms.From the top of the firm down, we embrace the diversity of values, identities and ideas brought forth by our employees and offer phenomenal flexibility to enhance work life balance We are passionate about performance and innovation. The team develops its own solutions to provide analysis and insight and automate to scale.Īlthough the team’s specialty is database technology, in order to excel in our role, we need to understand the environment that our technology operates in understanding of the business needs, the application server stack, the interaction between the database software, the operating system and host hardware are significant factors allowing us to deliver the best service possible. As preeminent specialists on database technology, our team is involved in every facet of system design, implementation, tuning and monitoring, using a wide variety of industry-leading database technologies. We ensure the resiliency and integrity of that data, while providing instantaneous access to a large global user base at BlackRock and across many Institutional Clients. Our team’s primary focus is to ensure continuous availability of BlackRock’s critical transaction processing, data warehousing, data replication and distributed data processing platforms.ĭata is the backbone of any world-class financial institution. Platform Operations is responsible for operating and engineering the reliability, stability and performance of the firm's financial systems including Aladdin and ensuring its availability to our business partners and customers. The Database Operations Team is an integral part of Platform Operations (PO) which sits under the broader Aladdin Product Group.

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