Data Steward - Associate OR VP

About this role About Aladdin Data (AD) Data is at the heart of Aladdin and increasingly the ability to acquire, govern, analyze, and derive insights from data is a key differentiator for BlackRock and our clients. The Aladdin Data (AD) team is responsible for the firm's data ecosystem, ensuring data can be discovered, trusted, accessed, and used effectively across investment, operations, analytics, AI, and client solutions. Our mission is to build and operate the capabilities, governance, and workflows that enable data producers and consumers across BlackRock to efficiently share and leverage high-quality data at scale. AD supports four strategic outcomes that together advance BlackRock's data strategy: Deliver high-quality, trusted data products and services that power investment processes, operational workflows, and client solutions. Enable data producers to publish and distribute data through a scalable marketplace, making both Aladdin and BlackRock-generated content easily discoverable and consumable. Provide well-governed data that fuels AI, analytics, and emerging digital capabilities across the firm. Offer common standards, tooling, governance, and reusable services that allow teams to focus on creating business value rather than building bespoke data infrastructure. The team builds common standards, governance, tooling and reusable services that help data producers publish high-quality data and help consumers find, trust and use it without building bespoke infrastructure. About this role We are building a new organization within Aladdin Data: the BlackRock Data Office , focused on enabling trusted, reusable and AI-ready data across Technology & Operations. The BlackRock Data Office will serve as the central team responsible for accelerating how data is onboarded, governed, managed and consumed through the firm's Data Marketplace. Working with domain teams, engineers, product teams and business stakeholders, the team will establish scalable stewardship, governance and data product practices that allow data to be managed as a strategic enterprise asset. We are seeking a Data Steward to help establish and scale data stewardship across Technology & Operations. The successful candidate will drive data ownership, governance, quality and accountability across strategic data domains, ensuring data is trusted, discoverable, reusable and fit for operational, analytical and AI-driven use cases.

Partner with business, product and engineering teams to establish and maintain data ownership, accountability and governance standards. Drive adoption of data governance, metadata, lineage, quality and data product standards across Technology & Operations. Support the onboarding, governance and lifecycle management of data products within the Data Marketplace. Define, monitor and report on data quality metrics, controls and remediation activities. Identify and help resolve data quality issues, governance gaps and data-related risks. Establish and support stewardship forums, governance processes and operating models. Partner with Data Product Owners, Engineers and Domain Owners to improve the quality, usability and discoverability of data products. Support the delivery of trusted, well-governed and AI-ready data products that can be reused across the firm. Drive stewardship best practices and contribute to the long-term vision of the BlackRock Data Office Required Experience Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Data Management, Business or a related discipline. 5+ years of experience in Data Stewardship, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Products or related disciplines. Understanding of data quality, metadata management, lineage, governance controls, stewardship practices and modern data operating models. Experience working with enterprise data platforms, analytics platforms or data products. Strong communication, stakeholder management and organizational skills, with the ability to