Vice President, Applied AI & Data Science – Investment & Trading Compliance

About this role BlackRock’s Investment & Trading Compliance engineering organization is reimagining how compliance professionals interact with regulations, investment guidelines, and business processes through artificial intelligence. We are seeking a Vice President, Applied AI & Data Science to help define and deliver the next generation of AI-powered compliance capabilities across the Aladdin platform. This role combines expertise in machine learning, generative AI, information retrieval, and software product development to create intelligent solutions that transform how compliance workflows are executed. The role also requires strong product engineering experience and the ability to apply modern, AI-enabled development practices to deliver production-grade solutions. You will work closely with product managers, software engineers, compliance specialists, AI researchers, and business stakeholders to build and scale AI solutions that automate complex workflows, accelerate knowledge discovery, improve decision-making, and enhance operational efficiency across global compliance functions. This is a highly impactful role focused on bringing emerging AI technologies into production and delivering measurable outcomes for clients and internal users.

The Investment & Trading Compliance engineering team develops technology that helps investment professionals and compliance teams manage regulatory obligations and investment restrictions across global markets. Our mission is to leverage artificial intelligence to transform compliance from reactive processes into intelligent, proactive, and scalable experiences. Key areas of focus include: Agentic compliance workflows AI-powered compliance assistants and copilots Semantic search and knowledge retrieval Large language models and reasoning systems Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Compliance knowledge graphs and rule intelligence AI-driven workflow automation Evaluation and governance of AI systems Enterprise AI platforms within Aladdin What You’ll Do Drive AI Innovation Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI solutions that address complex compliance and regulatory challenges. Identify opportunities where AI can transform existing processes and unlock new capabilities for compliance professionals. Shape the long-term AI strategy and roadmap for Investment & Trading Compliance. Build Intelligent AI Systems Design and implement solutions leveraging large language models, agentic frameworks, retrieval systems, and enterprise knowledge platforms. Develop approaches for semantic search, intelligent document retrieval, workflow orchestration, and reasoning over compliance knowledge. Partner with engineering teams to deliver highly scalable, production-grade AI services. Apply modern product engineering practices across the software and product development lifecycle, including the use of AI to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, implementation, testing, code review, and documentation. Articulate architectural trade-offs and design options, including their impact on scalability, resilience, cost, and delivery velocity. Advance Applied AI Research Evaluate emerging trends and technologies across generative AI, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and foundation models. Establish experimentation frameworks to validate new approaches and technologies. Collaborate with internal AI research teams to translate innovative concepts into real-world business solutions. Own AI Quality and Governance Define evaluation methodologies, success metrics, benchmarking strategies, and monitoring frameworks for AI solutions. Drive continuous improvement through model evaluation, user feedback, and operational telemetry. Ensure AI solutions meet BlackRock standards for responsible AI, transparency, security, and reliability. Partner Across the Firm Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, compliance, and AI platform teams to deliver business value through