The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Database Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Transaction Banking

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$130K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in business analysis, primarily in payments or financial technology.
  • Extensive experience creating epics and user stories for large-scale payment platforms.
  • Expert knowledge of payment systems including FedACH, Fedwire, and RTP.
  • Proven ability to lead complex payment projects in Agile environments.
  • Experience mentoring junior analysts and managing project workstreams.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills, particularly with senior stakeholders.
  • Analytical mindset with strong ownership of project outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the elicitation and analysis of business requirements for payment initiatives.
  • Define and own the backlog of epics and user stories aligned with strategic goals.
  • Drive consensus across cross-functional teams on solution designs and priorities.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on payment systems and industry trends.
  • Mentor junior analysts in best practices and Agile methodologies.
  • Oversee user acceptance testing strategy for product releases.
  • Manage the lifecycle of strategic projects, optimizing workflows for efficiency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive training and development opportunities.
  • Wellness and personal finance programs.
  • Support for diversity and inclusion initiatives.
  • Commitment to providing accommodations for candidates with special needs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
  • Help to define, communicate, and promote database engineering best practices for public cloud application deployment across the department.
  • Automate the provisioning of database, caching, and related operational tooling using Terraform.
  • Design and develop central Terraform modules to simplify the adoption of standard database patterns by application teams, such as database provisioning, parameter management, backup/restore, and monitoring modules.
  • Possess strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to present, persuade, and influence peers, vendors, and executives.
  • Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships across a multitude of stakeholders in a fast paced, multi-directional work environment.
  • Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply expertise to drive complex, technical, and highly commercial solutions.
  • Experience supporting complex production application environments.


Basic Qualifications
  • 5+ years' experience working with databases.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS RDS Aurora, RDS Oracle, or ElastiCache.
  • Experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment.
  • Experience meeting demands for high availability and scale.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as the interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams.
  • Ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working in a Linux environment, including system engineering, high availability design, performance analysis, network troubleshooting.
  • Hands on experience in Amazon web services, such as Cloudwatch, EC2, ECS, IAM, and KMS.
  • Experience with Apache Cassandra.
  • Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform).
  • Experience using CICD (preferably Gitlab).


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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