Core Risk Governance – Technology & Risk, RQA, Vice President

About this role

Business Overview

Managing risk is central to BlackRock’s investment process. Risk & Quantitative Analysis provides independent oversight of investment and enterprise risks and helps strengthen risk management across the firm.

Core Risk Governance team which sits in RQA India as part of Core Risk Management team, brings together risk governance, analytics and exception management capabilities to deliver scalable and resilient risk oversight across BlackRock’s investment risk platform.

The team focuses on making processes more consistent, controlled, automated, and easy to use through better data, reporting, analytics, and technology solutions.

Core Risk Management is extending its location strategy to Mumbai. This role will be the first senior hire supporting teams expansion in new location and will play a critical role in establishing the leadership, culture, operating discipline, and technical capability needed to build a successful Mumbai presence.

Job Purpose / Background

The Vice President, Core Risk Governance – Technology & Risk, will be the senior Core Risk Management leader based in Mumbai and a key member of the Core Risk Governance team.

This is a highly visible leadership role combining people management, technical delivery, risk expertise, and location build-out. The successful candidate will establish and lead the initial Mumbai team, create strong connectivity with the Gurgaon organization, and help build a cohesive, high-performing, and scalable multi-location operating model.

The role requires a seasoned leader with more than 10 years of experience managing teams, strong hands-on technical capabilities, and meaningful experience in risk management or financial services. The Vice President will lead the design and delivery of technology, data, analytics, reporting, automation, and AI-enabled solutions that strengthen risk governance and oversight.

The VP will combine strategic judgment with the ability to engage deeply in solution design and execution. The successful candidate will set high standards for talent, technology delivery, controls, operational resilience, and stakeholder outcomes while helping shape the long-term growth of Core Risk Management in Mumbai.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior Core Risk Management leader in Mumbai and establish a strong local presence aligned with the wider Gurgaon-based organization.

• Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team across technology, data, analytics, and risk-governance capabilities.

• Create an inclusive and connected team culture, ensuring strong collaboration, consistent standards, and effective knowledge sharing between Mumbai and Gurgaon.

• Support the phased development of the Mumbai location, including talent strategy, hiring, onboarding, capability building, workforce planning, and leadership development.

• Provide direct or matrix leadership to Mumbai-based analysts, associates, interns, and future hires, ensuring clear accountability and effective integration into their respective Core Risk Management teams.

• Help shape the Core Risk Governance technology, data, automation, and AI roadmap, translating business and risk priorities into scalable solutions.

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of technology and analytics initiatives from problem definition and solution design through testing, implementation, adoption, and production support.

• Provide strong technical leadership across Python, SQL, data engineering, cloud and enterprise data platforms, automation, analytics, application development, and AI-enabled workflows.

• Remain sufficiently hands-on to review solution architecture, challenge technical approaches, resolve complex delivery issues, and raise engineering and analytical standards.

• Partner with Risk, Investment, Data, Technology, Compliance, and Control teams to understand business requirements and deliver practical, controlled, and sustainable outcomes.

• Apply risk-management expertise to the development of reporting, analytics, controls, monitoring, and governance solutions that support investment-risk oversight and senior decision-making.

• Establish disciplined delivery standards covering software and product development lifecycles, testing, documentation, code quality, access management, issue tracking, release governance, and operational resilience.

• Build robust data-quality checks, monitoring, exception management, reconciliation, lineage, metadata, and escalation processes for risk analytics and AI-enabled applications.

• Ensure solutions are accurate, transparent, explainable, secure, user-focused, and aligned with relevant risk, data, technology, privacy, and control expectations.

• Assess emerging technologies and AI capabilities, balancing innovation and speed with reliability, safety, governance, and appropriate human oversight.

• Communicate priorities, risks, delivery progress, and key decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership forums.

• Act as a role model for ownership, collaboration, sound judgment, technical excellence, and talent development.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline.

• More than 10 years of relevant experience across technology, data, analytics, risk management, investment management, or financial services.

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams for at least 5 years, including people management, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and building leadership depth.

• Proven ability to establish or significantly scale a team, capability, or location while maintaining strong connectivity with a broader global or multi-location organization.

• Strong hands-on technical capability in Python, SQL, data engineering, cloud platforms, enterprise data solutions, automation, analytics, or application development.

• Experience designing and delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or AI-enabled solutions in a controlled production environment.

• Strong understanding of modern solution architecture, data pipelines, system integration, secure development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.

• Meaningful experience in risk management, investment management, portfolio analytics, regulatory reporting, governance, controls, or a closely related financial-services discipline.

• Ability to connect technical design with risk context, business outcomes, user needs, and control requirements.

• Proven experience translating complex business and risk requirements into clear technical strategy, delivery priorities, and executable plans.

• Strong understanding of data governance, including ownership, data quality, lineage, reconciliation, metadata, access controls, and audit-ready documentation.

• Experience with artificial intelligence, large language models, agentic workflows, search, document intelligence, workflow automation, or AI governance is highly desirable.

• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex risk and technology topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Key Attributes

• A senior people leader who can create followership, develop talent, and build a strong local culture from the ground up.

• A credible technical leader who can operate at both strategic and detailed levels.

• Strong risk judgment and an appreciation for independent oversight, governance, controls, and operational resilience.

• A builder’s mindset, with the ability to establish new capabilities and convert ambiguity into a clear operating model.

• High standards for quality, transparency, accountability, and execution.

• Strong ownership and the ability to lead through influence across teams, locations, and seniority levels.

• A collaborative and inclusive approach that strengthens connectivity between Mumbai, Gurgaon, and global partners.

• A pragmatic innovator who balances speed and ambition with safety, sustainability, and control.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

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