Associate

About this role

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Job Title: Associate

Location: 725 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30306

Job Duties: Design, develop, and maintain scalable security and data platforms that meet business and compliance needs. Optimize for scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency in cloud and hybrid environments. Actively participate in agile team activities, collaborating with product owners, UX/UI designers, business analysts, and engineering leads to delivery high-quality features quickly. Apply rigorous development practices through the lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, code reviews, deployment, and support. Promote clean code, maintainable architecture, and CI/CD principles. Work effectively in a distributed, multicultural team. Foster transparency, shared ownership, and continuous improvement through open communication and mentorship. Ensure System Resilience and Operational Excellence: Deliver robust solutions with automated testing frameworks. Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and provide level 2 production support to ensure stability and continuity. Architect, implement, and sustain software using modern languages and frameworks, including Java, and Sybase. Stay updated with industry trends to recommend and apply innovative solutions.

Qualifications: Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, and 12 months of experience in job offered, or closely related role. ALTERNATIVE REQS: Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, and 36 months of experience in job offered, or closely related role. Position requires one year of experience in the following: Programming in Java, C++, Scala, or Python; Spring Boot, Maven, API, Design Patterns, or CI/CD pipeline; Concurrent programming, high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications; Relational databases; Building distributed databases using NOSQL technologies, including Cassandra, and coordination services including Zookeeper; Message oriented middleware architecture; Use Junit, JMeter, mocking framework to work in test driven environment; Project management methodologies including Agile and Scrum; Data streaming processing technologies including spark streaming, Apache Flink; open-source high performance, and low latency data store including Redis.

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For Atlanta, GA Only the salary range for this position is USD$0.00 - USD$0.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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.

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.