Forward Deploy Data Engineer-Associate

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About this role About the Role: BlackRock's Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) is the firm's strategic foundation for how data products are built, governed, and consumed at scale, powering investment decisions, risk analytics, and operational workflows across the firm and its global client base. Data Platform as a Service (DPaaS) is a core capability within EDP, purpose-built to make data product creation fast, reliable, and repeatable. Whether a team is onboarding a new market data feed, publishing a risk dataset, or operationalizing a model output, DPaaS provides the infrastructure, tooling, and guided experience to take a raw data source and turn it into a trusted, production-grade data product. Teams get acquisition, ingestion, transformation, quality validation, and governance without having to build any of it themselves. Why This Role is Exciting: Most engineers either build platforms or use them. As a Forward Deploy Engineer on the DPaaS team, you do both. You will deploy by embedding directly with teams across the firm, bringing their data products to life and solving real problems that only surface when a platform meets production data. You will build by developing solutions t...