2027 Blackstone Technology & Innovation Software Developer Analyst (London)
- london, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent·On-site
- Full time
- £65 - £90 Per Hour
Job Description
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.
2027 Blackstone Technology & Innovations, Software Developer Analyst
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. BXTiis 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.
Programme Description
At Blackstone, we look to attract and retain the brightest minds in the business, hiring professionals and students in every area of the firm. Our employees’ passion for their work and commitment to their clients have helped Blackstone become one of the most respected financial institutions and a trusted partner for some of the largest investors in the world. Blackstone’s Analyst Program offers learning and development opportunities to help advance our employees’ careers across a number of areas: investing skills, leadership and management, communication and technology, among others. The Program offers the ability to work with professionals across all business units, and a robust mentorship experience to allow the participants to be fully immersed in the Blackstone culture.
Job Description
As a Software Developer Analyst, you will develop innovative technologies that are changing the Alternative Asset Management industry. You will work with other engineers and business analysts to design, build, deploy, and support Blackstone Innovations’ suite of applications. Our custom-built applications are mostly developed in Python or C# on the .NET platform with JavaScript/React/Node.js and hosted within AWS. We take full advantage of cloud native container-based and serverless architectures. We also build robust data pipelines connecting to Snowflake for data analysis and visualization. You will devise elegant solutions to Blackstone’s most meaningful technical challenges and put your own best ideas to work in an entrepreneurial environment inside one of the leading companies in its industry.
Analyst work may include:
- Build web applications, services, and functionality on a variety of platforms
- Develop on top of AWS in order to build scalable and robust solutions
- Utilize Docker to create containerized microservices
- Automate infrastructure configuration using Terraform and Puppet
- Use tools such as Airflow and Snowflake to build data pipelines
- Integrate various JavaScript libraries such as React to deliver seamless user experiences
- Design data models and persist data to SQL Server
- Use T‑SQL to manipulate and transform data
- Utilize Kafka and SQS for messaging
- Improve search using Apache Solr
- Build caching layers using Redis
- Use TeamCity and Jenkins to automate deployments
- Write automated unit, integration and deployment tests
- Build tooling to automate away repetitive tasks
Qualifications
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group, are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The successful candidate must possess:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A desire to work in a team environment with dynamic roles
- A basic knowledge of accounting and finance
- Self‑motivation to find solutions independently, and humility to acknowledge limits and uncertainties
- Sincere commitment to professional development