Vice President, Software Engineer (Private Markets Data)

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and operate scalable production-grade software systems for data processing, including expertise in Python, SQL, and modern data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices and tooling, including version control, CI/CD, automated testing frameworks, containerisation, and AI-augmented software development workflows.
• Experience working in cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, including infrastructure provisioning and automation using Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of data validation, testing strategies, code quality practices, and the ability to independently drive technical solutions from design through delivery.
• Experience supporting advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases, complemented by a rigorous, data-driven approach to experimentation, evaluation, and technical decision-making.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, product, data science, and business teams.
• A proactive, curious, and resilient mindset, with a demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, explore new technologies, and continuously improve systems and ways of working.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing software engineers while maintaining hands-on technical credibility.
• Desirable: experience working with financial market data, investment analytics, or private markets datasets.
• Desirable: experience designing and building software and/or data platforms in financial services environments or other regulated environments.
• Desirable: experience productionising statistical or quantitative models.
• Desirable: experience supporting AI/ML lifecycle management, including model versioning, experiment tracking, evaluation, serving, and deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and own scalable software solutions end-to-end, translating business objectives into technical designs through implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Design and implement reproducible, testable data workflows that enable advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases, incorporating validation, monitoring, observability, experimentation, versioning, and production deployment capabilities.
• Lead architectural decisions and influence technical prioritisation, partnering closely with product and delivery teams to align engineering effort with business impact.
• Act as a technical authority within the wider team, elevating engineering standards and driving best practices in data management, governance, and cloud-native development.
• Engage senior stakeholders, clearly communicating complex technical trade-offs and recommendations in business-relevant terms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product leaders to deliver high-impact solutions for institutional investors and private markets clients.
• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers, combining hands-on technical contribution with people management to foster a high performing, inclusive, and continuously improving engineering culture.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• Python
• SQL
• Web
• Machine Learning

More:

We are partnering with BlackRock to hire into our Preqin business, part of BlackRock, aligned to the Derived Data team. We build high-quality data products and scalable technology solutions that increase transparency and enable data-driven decision-making across private markets, supporting BlackRocks strategy of delivering integrated public and private market solutions. We offer a wide range of employee benefits, including retirement investment tools, education reimbursement, comprehensive physical and emotional well-being resources, family support programs, and Flexible Time Off (FTO). We work in a hybrid model with at least 4 days in the office per week and 1 day working from home, supporting collaboration, apprenticeship, learning, and onboarding. BlackRock is committed to helping people experience financial well-being and fostering an environment where colleagues feel welcomed, valued, and supported with networks, benefits, and development opportunities.

last updated 38 week of 2026