The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Technology Risk - Vice President, Agentic Systems Engineer / Technical Lead, New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$130K — $250K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-powered application development using large language models and orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices.
  • Experience building solutions on AWS and familiarity with its services.
  • Solid understanding of security architecture and governance controls.
  • Ability to convert complex business needs into scalable technical frameworks.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable AI systems capable of executing complex workflows.
  • Build reusable platform capabilities for governance and integration.
  • Define architecture patterns that ensure reliability and transparency.
  • Collaborate with teams to identify and implement automation opportunities.
  • Develop secure integrations with internal platforms and operational workflows.
  • Establish testing frameworks to assess system quality and performance.
  • Drive engineering best practices across the development lifecycle.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness offerings to support employee well-being.
Full Job Description
Job Description

YOUR IMPACT

As a Vice President within our Engineering organization, you will lead the design and development of production-grade agentic AI systems that automate complex business and cybersecurity workflows across the firm. You will help establish the architecture, controls, and engineering standards required to safely scale AI-powered automation in a highly regulated environment.

This role requires a strong software engineering foundation, deep understanding of AI systems, and the ability to partner closely with engineering, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to transform emerging technologies into enterprise solutions that deliver measurable impact.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design and develop scalable agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, retrieving information, invoking enterprise tools, and executing complex multi-step workflows.
  • Build reusable platform capabilities for orchestration, memory, tool integration, observability, governance, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Define architecture patterns that balance AI-driven reasoning with deterministic software systems, ensuring reliability, transparency, and auditability.
  • Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, and business teams to identify automation opportunities and deliver production-ready solutions.
  • Develop secure integrations with internal platforms, enterprise data sources, development tooling, and operational workflows.
  • Establish testing and evaluation frameworks to measure quality, reliability, performance, and business outcomes.
  • Drive engineering best practices across software development, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives.


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native applications, or enterprise software platforms.
  • Hands-on experience developing AI-powered applications utilizing large language models, tool integration, retrieval systems, and workflow orchestration frameworks.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices, including APIs, testing, CI/CD, production monitoring, and observability.
  • Experience building solutions on AWS, including services such as Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, and CloudWatch.
  • Strong understanding of security architecture, authentication, authorization, data protection, and governance controls.
  • Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience building AI platforms or agentic systems in cybersecurity, financial services, or other regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Strands Agents, or similar orchestration technologies.
  • Experience supporting security operations, cloud security, vulnerability management, identity and access management, or application security functions.
  • Experience evaluating and implementing enterprise AI platforms, including build-versus-buy decision frameworks.
  • Demonstrated track record of leading engineering teams and driving technical strategy.


SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE

Successful candidates will deliver secure, scalable, and measurable AI-driven automation solutions while establishing reusable platform capabilities that accelerate adoption across the firm. They will influence engineering standards, mentor teams, and help shape the long-term strategy for enterprise AI and agentic systems.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, 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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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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