VP/Director – Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA)
AI summary of the role
Define, establish, and lead the Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA) function within BlackRock's Aladdin Data organization.
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What you’ll do
- Establish and lead the APRA function, defining the operating model and roadmap for production readiness and assurance.
- Partner with Analytics Stewards and Product to translate domain standards into implementable readiness criteria and measurable posture signals.
- Own the technical framework for standards representation, including configuration/metadata data models and deterministic deviation detection.
- Design and operationalize core APRA metrics and reporting, producing executive-ready insights and leading automation/AI adoption.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of experience in analytics production, analytics platforms, data engineering, or related technical domains.
- Strong familiarity with market and risk analytics across financial markets (pricing, risk, portfolio analytics, model-driven outputs).
- Deep technical fluency in data modeling, configuration frameworks, and metadata, with hands-on SQL and Python capability.
- Demonstrated ability to translate abstract standards into concrete technical specifications (schemas, validation rules, posture logic).
Technologies
Aladdin · SQL · Python · configuration frameworks · metadata data modeling · AI-enabled analytics · automation techniques · anomaly detection · decision support
About BlackRock
Global asset manager and fiduciary serving institutions, advisors, governments, and individuals through iShares, Aladdin, public markets, private markets, and retirement solutions.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
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About this role Job Description Director – Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA) Analytics Production Delivery | Aladdin Data Role Brief Analytics Production Delivery within Aladdin Data is responsible for delivering analytics through production processes that are standard-based, explainable, and resilient to change. Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA) ensures that analytics, configurations, and production transitions meet defined production standards, and that deviations and tradeoffs are surfaced explicitly and handled through consistent decision processes. As a Director, you will define, establish, and lead the APRA function as a durable operating capability. You will partner with Analytics Stewards, Product teams, upstream modelers, and production delivery leaders to drive consistent adoption of production standards, readiness criteria, and posture
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About this role Job Description Director – Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA) Analytics Production Delivery | Aladdin Data Role Brief Analytics Production Delivery within Aladdin Data is responsible for delivering analytics through production processes that are standard-based, explainable, and resilient to change. Analytics Production Readiness & Assurance (APRA) ensures that analytics, configurations, and production transitions meet defined production standards, and that deviations and tradeoffs are surfaced explicitly and handled through consistent decision processes. As a Director, you will define, establish, and lead the APRA function as a durable operating capability. You will partner with Analytics Stewards, Product teams, upstream modelers, and production delivery leaders to drive consistent adoption of production standards, readiness criteria, and posture transparency. You will bring strong technical depth in configuration and metadata data modeling, market and risk analytics domain understanding, and AI/automation fluency to scale oversight through deterministic classification, metrics, and intelligent analysis. This role requires the ability to operate with general direction and minimal oversight, lead major initiatives, and drive sustained impact through influence and collaboration across teams. Key Responsibilities Establish and lead the APRA [... source excerpt omitted ...] s, how it is measured, and how assurance is applied consistently across analytics domains. Lead major cross-functional initiatives to embed readiness and assurance into analytics production delivery workflows, ensuring adoption without unnecessary process friction. Partner to drive production standards and accountability across upstream and downstream teams Partner with Analytics Stewards and Product to translate domain standards into implementable readiness criteria and measurable posture signals, ensuring standards are practical and observable in production. Hold upstream modelers and delivery stakeholders accountable to deliver models and implementations to agreed production [... source excerpt omitted ...] rship is explicit. Own the technical framework for standards representation and posture visibility Define and evolve the configuration/metadata data model required to represent: production standards, permissible variables, certification posture, configuration alignment, and transition state in machine-readable terms. Establish deterministic methods for comparing deployed configurations against approved standards and for surfacing deviations objectively and repeatably. Build scalable oversight, metrics, and automation (AI/tech fluent) Design and operationalize the core APRA metrics and reporting (posture, deviations, performance signals, decision states), producing executive-re
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