The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Engineering-Vice President-Software Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • 8+ years of experience in software development, with proficiency in data structures and algorithms
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and organizational skills
  • Experience managing small to mid-size teams
  • Proficient in at least one compiled programming language (e.g. Java, C+)
  • Full Stack experience using standard frameworks (e.g. React, SpringBoot)
  • Knowledge of SQL databases and design.

Responsibilities

  • Work in a fast-paced environment with exposure to all areas of Finance
  • Build strong relationships with business partners to understand needs
  • Develop process workflows, data requirements, and implementation specifications
  • Create technical specifications, design, testing strategies, and implementation plans
  • Manage the entire systems development cycle from analysis to maintenance
  • Explore new technologies relevant to ongoing projects

Benefits

  • Dynamic work environment with broad exposure to Finance
  • Opportunity to manage and lead teams
  • Engagement with novel technologies and innovation
  • Strong emphasis on automation and modernization of processes
  • Pathway to influence company-wide software solutions and compliance efforts.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Who We Look For:

This Vice President Software Engineer role is for a professional who is passionate about bringing business impact through digital transformation and deployment of scalable and reliable software solutions. The CF&O divisions have a large footprint of software applications to ensure the firm complies with the controls set forth in its policies and risk appetite, meet its regulatory obligations, and to protect the firm's reputation. To meet the demand of the business, driven by the size and complexity of the entire firm, the candidate will have the mandate to continuously increase the level of automation and to modernize and consolidate our software stacks. In addition, data is at the center of what we do. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experiences in and a passion for solving critical problems related to data modelling and data curation including data quality, warehousing, and analytics.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential:
  • Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance
  • Build strong relationships with business partners
  • Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
  • Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
  • Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance
  • Exploring new and emerging technologies as needed by the project

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, core programming concepts and experiences with continuous delivery and deployment
  • Excellent communicator who is comfortable engaging stakeholders, both verbally and written
  • A strong problem solver, organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment with delivery focus as part of a global team
  • Preferably experienced managing small to mid-size teams
  • Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language (e.g. Java, C++)
  • Full Stack experience with industry standard frameworks and tools (e.g. React, SpringBoot, DropWizard, Maven, Web/RESTful service development)
  • Knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience working in the financial services domain delivering software to front-office users or Controllers/Finance/Accounting teams
  • Experience in delivering solutions built on cloud-based, large-scale data analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake)
  • Experience working with vendor or in-house data catalog platforms (e.g. Unity Catalog, Open Catalog, Apache Polaris)

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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Join the prestigious team at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., a global leader in finance and investments, and propel your career to new heights. Our firm is renowned for its commitment to excellence, innovation, and leadership in the financial sector.

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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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