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Aladdin Data Risk, Controls & Governance, Director

BlackRock

Gurugram, IndiaStaff
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Location
Gurugram, India
Work model
On-Site
Level
Staff
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10h ago

About this role

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

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