Agentic AI & Data Platform Architecture, BlackRock Global Markets, Director

About the role

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is the world's largest asset manager. Within BlackRock, the BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) group provides the firm's investment teams with access to markets, liquidity, financing, and additional sources of return across index equity, fixed income, trading, and lending. Within BGM, the Platform - Data & Analytics team builds and operates the data, analytics, and AI platforms that underpin these businesses - the engineering foundation for how BGM creates, delivers, and governs intelligence. In India, BlackRock operates from Gurgaon, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, offering a flexible hybrid work model, modern office environments, and a comprehensive benefits package supporting long‑term growth and well‑being. Role Summary We are seeking a Director‑level platform leader to own the technical architecture and build plan for BGM's AI‑native, agentic data platform, designed around a deliberate dual‑lane architecture: Analytics Lane (Enterprise Data Platform / Snowflake) - governed analytical serving, certified data, and broad consumption. AI & Agentic Execution Lane - feature engineering, embeddings, vector workflows, model training and inference, agentic systems, and closed‑loop production feedback. This role owns the end‑to‑end technical blueprint for the AI and agentic lane, including clean integration with the analytics lane and with BGM's broader platform ecosystem - Aladdin Data and the Enterprise AI Platform (RockAI). Rather than assuming a single vendor stack, the role requires strong technical judgement to determine where to build internally, where to adopt external technologies, and how to assemble these into a cohesive system. This is a hands‑on technical leadership and team‑building role: the successful candidate will establish and grow a platform engineering function in India.