Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Assistant Vice President - Data Engineering & Visualization

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Business Unit: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi)

Business Unit Overview:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone's businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTi is nimble and entrepreneurial - our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

Job Title: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Assistant Vice President - Data Engineering & Visualization

Job Responsibilities:

• Full-stack design, development, and operation of core data stack including data lake, data warehouse, and data pipelines, ultimately facilitating data visualizations for data scientists and analysts across the firm and its portfolio companies.
• Build data flows for data acquisition, aggregation, and modeling, using both batch and streaming paradigms.
• Consolidate/join datasets to create easily consumable, consistent, holistic information.
• Design and implement machine learning models and prediction APIs, and ensure their operational performance over time.
• Empower data scientists and data analysts to be as self-sufficient as possible by building core systems and developing reusable library code.
• Use programming languages such as Python and SQL, as well as AWS Cloud Services, Snowflake data warehouses, and Airflow for workflow orchestration, as well as Tableau for data visualization.
• Support and optimize desktop and cloud environments for data scientists and data analysts.
• Make best-use of cloud native tools such as Vagrant and Docker as part of Blackstone's development environment.
• Ensure efficiency, quality, resiliency of data science core systems.
• Work with senior technical staff throughout Blackstone's portfolio companies to develop data flows.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

Education

• Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Professional Studies, Information Technology, or a related field

Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in job offered or related occupations
• Minimum 2 years experience as financial data engineer
• Minimum 2 years experience in cloud techniques like AWS, Azure, Airflow
• Minimum 2 years experience in big data, data science, data analysis, using Microsoft Excel.
• Any amount of experience analyzing complex data sets
• Any amount of experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python).
• Experience can be concurrent.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$125,000 - $185,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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