The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Core Engineering-L2-Dallas-Vice President-Software Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $180K — $220K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
  • 8-12 years of hands-on software development experience
  • Experience architecting solutions on AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience with LLM integration into enterprise workflows
  • Proficient in Java or Python; knowledge of RDBs and modern datastores
  • Demonstrated experience in greenfield development of software applications
  • Strong leadership skills with experience managing engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable cloud-native business systems
  • Manage, mentor and grow a high-performing software and AI engineering team
  • Run AI-driven development SDLCs to solve complex problems
  • Champion and execute organizational change for better processes
  • Maintain oversight of multiple concurrent projects to ensure their timely delivery
  • Build key financial metric calculation models for strategic decisions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders globally across various business divisions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Pension and retirement plans
  • Generous paid time off and holidays
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Work in a dynamic and innovative environment
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Vice President within our Core Enterprise Platform engineering group, you will serve as a technical architect and organizational leader, driving critical initiatives forward and providing strategic direction to global agile teams. In this role, you will lead high-priority, greenfield development in support of Goldman Sachs' strategic OneGS transformation initiative. Our legacy-free team is focused on building modern, cloud-native applications from scratch on AWS, leveraging cutting-edge AI capabilities and scalable data solutions to power the firm's global operations. You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of these mission-critical platforms, creating solutions ranging from deterministic automation to advanced agentic workflows.

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems, developing cutting-edge software and platforms that form the core of our business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to essential information and process millions of data points daily to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies. Your role is to design, own, and continuously improve these solutions, driving their growth and impact throughout the organization, championing engineering best practices, and leading organizational change to maximize their impact.

This position provides a unique opportunity to gain subject matter expertise in both technology and finance, and to directly drive initiatives alongside colleagues and senior management from across the business, Risk, Finance, and Engineering to align technical execution with overarching strategic goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Design and implement scalable cloud-native business systems.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software and AI engineers. Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Run AI driven spec driven development SDLCs to solve complex financial and technical problems.
  • Champion and enact organizational change. Streamline engineering processes, improve cross-functional workflows, and drive the adoption of new technologies and best practices across the department.
  • Maintain strong organizational oversight of multiple concurrent projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.
  • Build and maintain key financial metric calculation models and associated infrastructure to support forward-looking business strategies and decisions in an evolving regulatory landscape.
  • Work closely with a wide range of stakeholders globally, across multiple divisions of the firm.


SKLLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
  • 8-12 years of hands-on software development, including lead developer roles
  • Experience architecting solutions on Cloud (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with integrating LLMs into enterprise workflows
  • Experience utilizing AI coding tools such as Copilot or Claude Code for development
  • Experience developing preferably in Java or Python, competent in traditional (RDBs) and/or modern datastores (ex. Snowflake, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB)
  • Proven experience building and launching new software applications from scratch (greenfield development)
  • A strong passion for and history of solving complex, multi-faceted problems in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong full-stack technical design, development skills and experience
  • Experience managing engineering teams, conducting performance reviews, and guiding career development for senior and junior staff
  • Demonstrate ability to lead organizational change, influence engineering culture, and drive process improvements
  • Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences globally
  • Preferred previous experience working in the finance, banking, or FinTech industry. Familiarity with financial data and regulatory environments is a significant plus.

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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