Data Risk Director - Controls & Governance

About this role

Role Overview

The Director in the Aladdin Data Risk team is expected to operate as a senior enterprise leader, owning the strategy, execution, and governance of risk management, data controls, and analytics stewardship across the Aladdin platform. This role requires the ability to shape direction, influence senior stakeholders, anticipate emerging risk, and drive scalable operating models that strengthen the integrity, quality, resilience, and commercial value of Aladdin’s data and analytics ecosystem. The Director serves as a trusted advisor to internal and external stakeholders, leading high-impact initiatives that enhance risk controls, data quality, regulatory readiness, and platform maturity.

Key Responsibilities

• Risk Management & Controls

  • Set the strategic direction for Aladdin Data risk management frameworks and controls, ensuring they are scalable, audit-defensible, commercially aligned, and resilient across evolving platforms, products, and regulatory expectations.

  • Lead complex, high-priority incident management with executive judgment, coordinating across Engineering, Product, Client Businesses, Compliance, and senior leadership to drive timely remediation, transparent communication, and durable prevention.

  • Proactively strengthen regulatory and policy compliance by partnering with Audit, Compliance, Legal, and business leaders to translate expectations into clear controls, measurable outcomes, and sustainable operating discipline.

• Data Governance & Quality

  • Own enterprise stewardship of critical analytics and risk data, ensuring data is governed, traceable, complete, accurate, and fit for senior leadership, client, audit, and regulatory consumption.

  • Define and institutionalize data quality standards, executive metrics, validation frameworks, and escalation mechanisms that create transparency, accountability, and measurable improvement across the data lifecycle.

  • Partner with Data Engineering, Product, and Governance teams to embed automated validation, control checks, lineage, and monitoring into data pipelines and operating workflows.

• Analytics Stewardship

  • Own and evolve analytics capabilities supported by the Aladdin Data platform, ensuring solutions are scalable, controlled, client-relevant, and aligned to enterprise growth priorities.

  • Influence modeling, product, and engineering teams to ensure new risk models and analytics meet business needs, control expectations, and enterprise data quality standards before adoption.

  • Lead large-scale testing, adoption readiness, and insight generation for quantitative financial models and analytics, translating complex findings into clear decisions for senior stakeholders.

• Strategic Leadership & Collaboration

  • Define and drive a multi-year roadmap for process engineering, control maturity, automation, and risk transformation aligned to enterprise objectives and Aladdin Data strategic priorities.

  • Operate as a senior integrator across Client Businesses, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Audit, and enterprise governance teams to deliver new analytics and business solutions, including climate, private credit, AI-enabled data, and other emerging capabilities.

  • Build, coach, and elevate talent by setting a high bar for judgment, ownership, communication, and execution, while fostering an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing team culture.

• Client Engagement

  • Serve as a senior trusted advisor to clients and executive stakeholders, framing complex risk and data issues clearly, managing expectations, and driving outcomes that reinforce confidence in Aladdin Data capabilities.

  • Lead client-facing risk controls capabilities, including direct engagement on incidents, control enhancements, remediation strategies, and forward-looking improvements to strengthen transparency and trust.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading data risk, controls, and governance functions within Aladdin or comparable enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms

• Proven ability to own end-to-end enterprise risk and control frameworks across the data lifecycle, with clear accountability for design, adoption, monitoring, remediation, and executive reporting.

• Deep understanding of investment data, risk analytics, portfolio modeling environments, and platform-scale data operations, with the ability to enforce data integrity, completeness, reliability, and usability across critical analytics outputs.

• Demonstrated experience leading Internal Audit, regulatory, and senior management engagements, including the ability to produce defensible evidence, clear narratives, and sustainable remediation plans.

• Demonstrated expertise in data privacy, protection, and responsible data use frameworks, including GDPR and enterprise policy obligations.

• Track record designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise policy frameworks and operating models that translate strategic intent into clear standards, controls, ownership, and adoption.

• Proven ability to define and execute strategic initiatives that materially strengthen enterprise risk posture, including:

  • Scaling control frameworks for new platforms, AI-driven data capabilities, acquisitions, emerging asset classes, and evolving regulatory expectations.

  • Driving enterprise-wide data governance adoption, ownership clarity, and operating model maturity across complex, global stakeholder groups.

  • Advancing monitoring, automation, issue detection, and management reporting capabilities that enable proactive risk identification and measurable control improvement.

  • Partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Client Business, Compliance, Audit, and senior leadership to embed risk ownership into the operating fabric of the platform.

• Expertise designing and enforcing data quality controls, validation frameworks, lineage, metrics, and issue management processes that are scalable, measurable, and audit-ready.

• Strong leadership experience managing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams while driving change, accountability, and execution discipline in complex, matrixed environments.

• Exceptional ability to engage executive stakeholders, clients, and control partners as a credible, strategic advisor on data risk, governance, platform resilience, and regulatory readiness.

Impact & Growth

• The Director in Aladdin Data Risk is expected to demonstrate the judgment, ownership, influence, and enterprise mindset of a high-performing leader. Success in this role is measured by the ability to set strategy, mobilize stakeholders, deliver measurable control maturity, scale sustainable operating models, elevate talent, and strengthen confidence in Aladdin Data’s risk, governance, and analytics capabilities across clients, regulators, auditors, and senior leadership.

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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

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