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[Apply on BlackRock’s careers site →](https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/BlackRock_Professional/job/London-Greater-London/Director---Hyperion-Engineering_R264574) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [BlackRock](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/) / Director - Hyperion Platform Lead, Software Engineering ## Job description About this role About Hyperion Hyperion is BlackRock’s strategic platform for AI-enabled processing of unstructured data, in particular related to Private Markets. The platform enables internal and eventually external customers to build data processing workflows. The goal is to automatically process millions of documents, news articles, and websites every day by leveraging the latest technology for workflow orchestrations and AI data processing. ### Role Overview You will join BlackRock’s Private Markets Data Engineering organisation, leading the development of the Hyperion platform. Y ou will lead the team that design s, build s, and operate s a scalable, production-grade platform in close alignment with other leaders of the project as well as leaders of other areas of BlackRock. ### Key Responsibilities Own senior technical leadership and architectural direction for the nascent Hyperion platform, i.e., making strategic trade-offs, solve complex challenges, and adopt innovative technologies, in close collaboration with other leaders. Enhance our culture, centred around empowering each team member to innovate and instilling a strong sense of ownership. Collaborate with leaders of BlackRock Aladdin to define the strategic direction and priorities of the project. Lead, coach, and develop engineers, combining hands-on technical contribution with people management. Own the end-to-end delivery of this complex, business critical platform, from design through sustained production operation, with accountability for outcomes, reliability, and trust. Build strong relationships with other internal platform teams, to co-design the overall architecture and partner towards a common goal. Design the platform in a way that e nabl es early adopters while driving towards a self-service approach for developers and non-technical users. ### Required Experience Demonstrated experience (10+ years) desig ning and launching enterprise scale, production grade platforms, with a strong track record of reliability, performance, and stakeholder trust in business-critical environments. Proven ability to exercise senior technical judgement, making architectural and prioritisation trade-offs across complex data ecosystems, including scalability, cost, governance, and long-term sustainability considerations. Advanced expertise distributed systems and workflow orchestration. Proficiency in Python for building and operating data pipelines, orchestration, and automation, supported by solid software engineering fundamentals (version control, testing, CI/CD). Advanced expertise with modern platform infrastructure and enablement practices, including infrastructure -as-code (Terraform or equivalent), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and related cloud-native technologies. Experience leading, mentoring, and developing engineers while building a strong team culture with a strong sense of ownership and proactive innovation. Desirable Experience Exposure to AI enabled capabilities for processing of unstructured data. Experience in financial markets. ### Who You Are You operate with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for complex, business critical data platforms and driving initiatives through to sustained production impact. You continuously strive to improve culture beyond your team. You apply rigorous, analytical thinking to ambiguous problems, using evidence, engineering judgement, and structured decision-making to deliver scalable, well governed solutions. You set a high bar for engineering excellence, embedding best practices in security, code quality, documentation, testing, and operational resilience. You collaborate effectively across disciplines, building trusted partnerships with product, analytics, and business stakeholders. You lead through influence and example, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high performing engineering culture. You demonstrate a growth mindset and continuous improvement orientation, embracing change and challenging established ways of working to deliver better outcomes at scale. 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; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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 Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 22, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Jul 10, 2026 - Last checked: Nov 1, 2026 - Listed for: 114 days - Location: London, Greater London - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on BlackRock’s careers site →](https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/BlackRock_Professional/job/London-Greater-London/Director---Hyperion-Engineering_R264574) ## Hiring at BlackRock - Open jobs: 241 - New in the last 7 days: After two weekly collections - Tracked since: Jul 10, 2026 [All BlackRock jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/) · [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) ## More jobs at BlackRock ### [Vice President, Software Engineer (Private Markets Data)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/jobs/af51c85e06ea7bb922ac/) London, Greater London ### [2027 Quantitative Masters Internship Programme - Investments - Quantitative Investing - London](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/jobs/ff884ead80eba98d18db/) London, Greater London ### [Associate, Forward Deployed Business Analyst](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/jobs/9f0d3fe625119277e690/) London, Greater London ### [Associate, Java Engineer, BGM Data & Analytics](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/jobs/5dc3b1cb26a35fc7aa32/) London, Greater London ### [Associate, Preqin Client Success](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/blackrock/jobs/cb9c4161208fcc938b46/) London, Greater London ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Oracle Hyperion Consultant](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/sgs/jobs/559078cf6c24a7c66249/) SGS · Bogotá, Colombia ### [Sr Analyst, Hyperion](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/ralph-lauren/jobs/acf71286b05bf1596b03/) Ralph Lauren · India ### [Hyperion Planning - EPM Cloud](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/ntt/jobs/556c7c8d5b53dad16182/) NTT · Hyderabad, TG, IN, India ### [Director, Platform Engineering, CargillNow](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cargill/jobs/4086d9ed48aa07ed5699/) Cargill · Bengaluru, India ### [Executive Director - Platform & Change Management](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jpmorganchase/jobs/98488a8decf02ab2b130/) JPMorganChase · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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