AI-Enabled Product Engineer – Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering, Vice President

About this role Vice President, AI-Enabled Product Engineer – Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering     Location:   Edinburgh   About the Role     BlackRock is seeking a Vice President, AI-Enabled Product Engineer to join Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering within Analytics & Compliance Engineering. This role is for a hands-on engineering leader who can build scalable agentic solutions while helping accelerate the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across the product development lifecycle.     The successful candidate will work at the intersection of investment technology, investment compliance workflows, full-stack engineering, and applied AI. They will help design and deliver capabilities across the Aladdin platform that support investment professionals, compliance teams, and business stakeholders   operating   in complex global markets.     About Aladdin, Investments & Trading Engineering     Aladdin is BlackRock’s technology platform used by investment professionals to manage portfolios,   analyse   risk, execute workflows, and make decisions at scale. Within Investments & Trading Engineering, Analytics & Compliance Engineering develops technology that helps teams manage investment guidelines, regulatory obligations, analytics-driven workflows, and operational controls across global markets.     The Investment and Trading Compliance Engineering team   is responsible for   developing and   maintaining   tools to ensure that organizations using Aladdin® comply at   different stages   of the asset management process. This includes ensuring that clients follow guidelines   established   internally, by themselves, and by   the market   regulators. The system   accomplishes   this through high-throughput rule-based compliance engines, which sit at the heart of the investment system and process millions of calculations per day.     Our engineering teams build products with real reach, real complexity, and real impact. We are evolving our platform with persona-based, workflow-driven experiences, modular architecture, resilient services, and responsible AI capabilities that improve productivity, decision-making, knowledge discovery, and operational efficiency.     What You’ll Do   Design, build, and deliver high-quality full-stack   Agnetic   product capabilities across the Aladdin platform, with a focus on Analytics & Compliance Engineering workflows.   Act as a hands-on technical leader across the product development lifecycle, contributing to technical design, implementation, testing,   deployment   readiness, production support, and continuous improvement.   Partner with product managers, engineers, compliance specialists, and business stakeholders to translate complex business problems into clear specifications, technical designs, delivery plans, and actionable Agile backlogs.   Apply AI-enabled engineering practices to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, software development, testing, code review, documentation, and operational support.   Help embed responsible AI capabilities into product workflows and platform services, including intelligent assistants, workflow automation, semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and reasoning over compliance and investment information.   Build scalable, resilient, and operable systems that balance functional requirements with non-functional concerns such as performance, latency, reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.   Influence architecture and technical direction across initiatives, articulating design   trade-offs   and aligning stakeholders around pragmatic engineering choices.   Champion engineering excellence through test-driven development,   behaviour -driven development, DevOps practices, production readiness, and an SRE mindset.   Mentor   engineers,   raise the bar for technical quality, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and