Engineering-L2-New York-Vice President-Software Engineering

What We Do:  At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible.  Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas.  Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients.  Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.  Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.   Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions.  Want to push the limit of digital possibilities?  Start here.
Who We Are:

The CF&O Shared Services Engineering team (CFOSS) is a centralized group within Engineering that supports divisional objectives of Compliance, Risk, Controllers and Corporate Treasury. The team provides common services cross divisionally in order to realize efficiencies and establish best practices across the organization. 

The team’s core priorities include:

1. Improving workflow efficiencies and governance through the systemization and automation of financial metrics and associated limits.
2. Accelerating the adoption of Cloud and Core Engineering solutions.
3. Establishing positions data quality, accountability and lineage.
4. Developing unified data models across assessment platforms and ensure they meet regulatory and internal Risk & Compliance management requirements.
5. Support the development of analytic calculations and data transformations.
    

Who We Look For: 

This 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, drive 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.
The successful candidate will have demonstrated experiences in and passion for solving critical problems related to data warehousing, distributed computing and data 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
• 2+ years of of experience in Java/J2EE development and related technologies (Spring, Hibernate, etc.) 
• 1+ year of experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS 
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and core programming concepts
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts and design patterns 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 
• Experience with distributed computing and web services (RESTful, SOAP) 
• Knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) and SQL 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and in a team environment 

 

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