Python Engineer, Index Fixed Income, Associate

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About this role Job Purpose/Background: The Index Fixed Income (IFI) team has responsibility for managing Blackrock’s Index Fixed Income portfolios, including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) , mutual funds , & segregated mandates . The IFI team liaises closely with many areas of Fixed Income and is responsible for ensuring that Fixed Income portfolios are managed efficiently and in a consistent and risk-controlled manner. BlackRock’s IFI business is the leading index investment group in the world. We help investors build better portfolios with the industry’s leading suite of index investment tools. We manage over $1.5 trillion in global index fixed income assets across Developed and Emerging Markets. Our clients include corporate and public pension plans, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and retail investors. The PM Architecture team are designing and developing portfolio construction algorithms to significantly increase automation and productivity across IFI globally . They are also partnering with Technology teams to develop the core platform with which to deploy algorithms robustly at scale . Algorithms have already been successfully deployed which are event-based and automati...