Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Associate - Liquids Technology

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Business Unit:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) - Associate - Liquids Technology

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) - Associate - Liquids Technology

Job Responsibilities:

• Analysis, design, implementation, testing, debugging and deployment of scalable data-driven analytics tools for the Blackstone Liquids Direct Lending/Business Development Corporation and Hedge Fund Solutions platform.
• Build the platform with data science, statistics, and computer programming.
• Work hand in hand with the Direct Lending/BDC and Hedge Fund Solutions investment teams focusing on optimizing portfolio yield and risk while also monitoring all nuances of 40 Act BDC regulations.
• Leverage facility and trading strategy analysis, along with the ability to model and generating hypothetical projected returns and Daily NAV/Stock Price.
• Use Data Science background to help find investment covariance and alpha in the credit markets.
• Work with diverse datasets and transform unstructured and dirty data into an organized format suitable for data science.
• Proficient with Python and SQL to build a clean and scalable code base that powers the analytical models and generates novel insight from the data.
• Build interactive data visualization tools using SSRS, Python Panel and Tableau.
• Implement and extend core system architecture and data warehouses using Snowflake and AWS to build a solid foundation for the data analytics.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Experience:

• 2 years of experience in job offered or related occupations.
• 2 years of experience in credit investing; in data analytics/ data science role.
• 2 years of experience in programming languages including SQL and Python.
• 2 years of experience with SSRS, Python Panel, Tableau Data Visualization tools.
• 2 years of experience with designing and implementing scalable portfolio analytics platforms.
• 2 years of experience with big data analytical techniques and cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and snowflake.
• 2 years of experience with Geneva Portfolio Accounting Software.
• 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:

$90,000 - $160,000

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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• 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
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