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.

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.

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.

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.

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;