The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Risk-Salt Lake City-Associate-Software Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
  • 3-5 years’ experience in risk technology within a large financial institution
  • Expertise in credit risk management processes and regulatory deliverables
  • Proficient in software development with strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and collaborate effectively in a team environment
  • Familiarity with programming languages including Scala, Java, Python, and Spark
  • Experience with process scheduling tools like Apache Airflow

Responsibilities

  • Develop software solutions for risk calculations and data processing
  • Perform statistical analyses on market risk metrics to identify trends
  • Build reporting tools for risk metrics output using SQL and Tableau
  • Design and support batch processes for data distribution
  • Utilize web technologies for front-end development of risk management applications
  • Performance tune applications to optimize memory and CPU usage
  • Oversee junior team members in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices

Benefits

  • Work with a dynamic global team of engineers and risk managers
  • Engage in high-profile projects with cutting-edge technologies
  • Gain experience with diverse tools including HDFS, Snowflake, and more
  • Opportunity to impact key aspects of risk management
  • Develop strong networking connections in the financial technology sector
Full Job Description
Job Description

To ensure uncompromising accuracy and timeliness in the delivery of critical risk metrics that support Goldman Sachs' decision making process, our data platform is continuously growing and evolving. Capital Risk Engineering combines the principles of Computer Science, Mathematics and Finance to produce large scale, computationally intensive calculations of risk Goldman Sachs faces with each business transaction we engage in. Capital Risk Engineering has an opportunity for an Associate level Software Engineer to work across a broad range of applications and extremely diverse set of technologies to keep the platform operating at peak efficiency.

As an Engineer in the Risk Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to impact one or more aspects of risk management. You will work with a global team of talented engineers to drive the build & adoption of common tools, platforms, and applications. The team builds solutions that are offered as a software product or as a hosted service. We are a dynamic team of talented developers and architects who partner with business areas and other technology teams to deliver high profile projects using a raft of technologies that are fit for purpose (Java, Cloud computing, HDFS, Spark, S3, ReactJS, Sybase IQ, Snowflake, Tableau among many others). A glimpse of the interesting problems that we engineer solutions for, include acquiring high quality data, storing it, performing risk computations in limited amount of time using distributed computing, and making data available to enable actionable risk insights through analytical and response user interfaces.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
  • This role is for a Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managers
  • You will apply your prior experience and expertise of working in credit risk domain at a large bank or financial institution, and ramp up very quickly to work with the global team
  • Performance tune applications to improve memory and CPU utilization.
  • Perform statistical analyses to identify trends and exceptions related Market Risk metrics.
  • Build internal and external reporting for the output of risk metric calculation using data extraction tools, such as SQL, and data visualization tools, such as Tableau.
  • Utilize web development technologies to facilitate application development for front end UI used for risk management actions
  • Develop software for calculations using databases like Snowflake, Sybase IQ and distributed HDFS systems.
  • Interact with business users for resolving issues with applications.
  • Design and support batch processes using scheduling infrastructure for calculation and distributing data to other systems.
  • Oversee junior technical team members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review and production migrations.

Skills And Experience We Are Looking For
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
  • 3-5 years' experience working with risk technology teams in a large investment or retail bank, or a comparable financial institution.
  • Experience in credit risk management functions and processes, knowledge of major regulatory deliverables for credit risk and expertise in related technology is required
  • Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
  • Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
  • Comfortable with working with multiple programming languages, including learning proprietary software coding when required
  • Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)
  • Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.
  • Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.
  • Should be ready to work in GS proprietary technology like Slang/SECDB
  • An understanding of compute resources and the ability to interpret performance metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, threads, file handles).
  • Knowledge and experience in distributed computing - parallel computation on a single machine like DASK, Distributed processing on Public Cloud.
  • Knowledge of SDLC and experience in working through entire life cycle of the project from start to end

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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