BlackRock is a global investment management corporation dedicated to helping people achieve financial well-being. The Associate - DataOps role involves providing advanced operational support and stability for enterprise data platforms, ensuring incident resolution, platform reliability, and operational improvement.
Responsibilities
- Own L1/L2 operational support for production data platforms, including data lakes, streaming pipelines, and Snowflake-based analytics
- Diagnose and resolve complex failures in ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration frameworks, partnering with engineering where required
- Actively manage incidents, including impact assessment, remediation coordination, and postincident documentation
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability coverage, identifying gaps and driving instrumentation enhancements
- Support onboarding of new pipelines and data products by validating operational readiness, scalability, and reliability
- Analyze recurring incidents and data quality issues, contributing to root cause analysis (RCA) and longterm remediation
- Mentor analysts through guidance on operational best practices, troubleshooting, and platform behavior
- Contribute to automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency
Skills
- Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, including data lakes, warehouses, streaming, and Snowflake
- Handson experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow)
- Practical experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, with exposure to cloud-native data services
- Experience supporting production systems with defined SLAs and incident management processes
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company Overview
BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. It was founded in 1988, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.blackrock.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
BlackRock has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 18 in 2025, 34 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 37 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 27 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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