Overview
Forward Deploy Engineer (Associate) on BlackRock’s DPaaS team within the Enterprise Data Platform, embedding with partner teams to onboard and deploy data products into production.
What you'll do
- Embed with partner engineering and data teams to drive end-to-end onboarding onto DPaaS from source configuration to production.
- Define data product structure including schema, ownership, SLAs, quality expectations, and governance attributes.
- Troubleshoot onboarding failures across infrastructure, pipeline, and data layers in real time.
- Run technical onboarding sessions and workshops tailored to each team’s data product needs.
- Develop reusable accelerators such as pipeline templates, configuration generators, and schema mapping utilities.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor through office hours, enablement sessions, and training.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools for configuration authoring, pipeline generation, and onboarding automation.
What you'll need
- 3+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience shipping production-grade solutions.
- Understanding of data product concepts such as schema design, data ownership, SLAs, quality frameworks, and governance.
- Experience working with both structured and unstructured data products.
- Strong proficiency in Python; Java or Go knowledge is a plus.
- Familiarity with Azure ecosystem services such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and Azure Data Factory.
- Working knowledge of Snowflake including ingestion patterns, database setup, roles, and basic query optimization.
- Active user of AI assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, or equivalent) plus a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent practical experience).
Details
- Location: Mumbai, India.
- Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week and 1 day work from home.
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