The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Wealth Management-Dallas-Vice President-Security Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $130K — $180K *
Dallas, TX 75217In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Reposted 6 days ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in secure architecture design, application security, and risk analysis techniques.
  • Ability to build long-term relationships across teams.
  • Experience managing multiple tasks and risks effectively.
  • Proficient in identifying security gaps with technical engineers.
  • Familiar with security testing methodologies and common application vulnerabilities.
  • Expert in application security best practices, OWASP and CWE standards.
  • Hands-on experience in software development and application penetration testing preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Dev Ops teams.
  • Oversee security of applications (Cloud/Web/API/Mobile) for Asset and Wealth Management.
  • Act as a security advisor to ensure design incorporates confidentiality, integrity, and privacy.
  • Partner with business units to assess architectural requirements and flaws.
  • Evaluate key security controls and recommend risk mitigation improvements.
  • Lead and develop a small team of application security specialists.
  • Drive the integration of application security within the Software Development Life Cycle.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Focus on innovation in a cybersecurity context.
  • Contributions to critical client asset protection.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role Overview

The Lead Product Security Engineer position within the Asset and Wealth Management division and will be responsible for defining and evaluating solutions by closely working with the engineering teams to improve overall cybersecurity risk posture of the firm. This role is pivotal in balancing commercial objectives with robust security controls, ensuring the division's resilience against an evolving threat landscape, and protecting client assets and data.

The objective is to foster a unified and proactive approach to risk management through early design review and penetration testing engagements with the engineering BU teams and enabling secure technological innovation across all Asset and Wealth Management initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
  • This position is hands-on and requires close collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Dev Ops teams.
  • Responsible for security of applications (Cloud/Web/API/Mobile) managed by Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) in conjunction with centralized security teams
  • Act as a security advisor to architects, developers, analysts and others to ensure we design confidentiality, integrity, resiliency, and privacy into the platform
  • Partner with business units to understand requirements, design proposals and evaluate architectural flaws for various on-prem/cloud architectures
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of existing key controls, identify gaps, and recommend improvements to mitigate risks and enhance firm's security posture
  • Supervise, coach, and develop a small team of application security specialists
  • Drive adoption of embedded application security controls as part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Agile methodology, including automated tools.
  • Perform secure code reviews and facilitating or conducting penetration testing
  • Assist in implementation of security related product features such authentication, cryptography, authorization, service integration, etc.
  • Develop, maintain, and improve Technology Risk Program reflecting new emerging risks
  • Enable the business to meet security requirements by design


Skills and Experience Required
  • 6+ years' experience in secure architecture design, application security, and risk analysis techniques or related fields.
  • Energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with colleagues.
  • Must have experience managing multiple tasks and using sound judgment when managing risks, prioritizing and escalating.
  • Must be able to work with deeply technical engineers, identify gaps that need addressing, and hold them to account.
  • Security testing methodologies, tools and techniques - understanding of common application security vulnerabilities and controls to remediate.
  • Expert knowledge of application security best practices including OWASP and CWE and cloud related concepts
  • Hands-on software development and/or application Penetration Testing experience in complex environments an advantage
  • The successful candidate will be able to balance project management trade-offs, own decisions and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders across business, partners, vendors, internal technology stakeholders and technology peers, with an eye towards influencing and driving positive business outcomes.
  • Strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experienced in Financial Services/Fintech
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Security, or a related technical field.
  • Experience with leveraging AI/ML to solve security problems and scale operations.
  • Knowledge of secure coding languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
  • Cloud related experiences
  • CSSLP / CISSP / CCSP / OSCP is a 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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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
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