Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineering Lead - Vice President - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs’ Engineering team in the UK seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable billing platform software and infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data feeds, APIs, and processing pipelines that support finance-focused solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, architecture input, and strong data analytics to turn complex data into actionable insights while adhering to fast-paced project deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented skills and frameworks.
• Experience with producing scalable software designs.
• Experience in Spring, REST services, JMS, Hibernate/JPA, JSON is required.
• Experience working with databases like Sybase or MongoDB.
• Experience with designing/delivering messaging-based solutions (e.g. Kafka).
• Fast learner who can pick up existing applications (functionally & technically).
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and meet project deadlines.
• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Propose, design, and implement software solutions to enhance services and enable new business functions.
• Perform hands-on development; participate in architecture and design discussions, design reviews.
• Work closely with other engineering teams across the firm to develop data feeds, APIs, processing pipelines.
• Collaborate with the global user group to support and enhance applications to meet new requirements.
• Convert business requirements into technical specifications.
• Gather requirements and transform data needs into actionable insights for business decisions.
• Develop and maintain scalable dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.
• Provide technical support and troubleshoot data pipelines and transformations.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and data analytics best practices.

Skills

Spring

REST services

JMS

Hibernate/JPA

JSON

Kafka

OO design

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS or related field

Tools

Sybase

MongoDB

Snowflake

BigQuery (GBQ)

AWS Glue

Apache Spark

Job description

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 strategist 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 Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Asset & Wealth Management Engineering

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

We are looking for a skilled and motivated software engineer to design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient system and infrastructure for our billing platform.

• Propose, design, and implement software solutions to enhance our services and enable new business functions.
• Perform hands‑on development; participate in architecture and design discussions, design reviews.
• Work closely with other engineering teams across the firm to develop data feeds, APIs, processing pipelines.
• Work closely with the global user group to support and enhance the applications to meet new requirements.
• Understand the business workflows to assist in analysing and converting business requirements into technical specifications.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand data needs, and transform them into actionable insights that drive business decisions.
• Develop and maintain scalable and efficient dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that effectively present complex data in a user‑friendly manner.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting data pipelines and transformations, resolving issues and ensuring system availability.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and business intelligence and data analytics best practices.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands‑on software development experience
• Solid understanding of object‑oriented skills and frameworks.
• Experience with producing scalable software designs.
• Experience in Spring, REST services, JMS, Hibernate/JPA, JSON is required.
• Experience working with databases like Sybase or MongoDB.
• Experience with designing/delivering messaging-based solutions (e.g. Kafka)
• Fast learner who can pick up existing applications (functionally & technically)
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and meet project deadlines.
• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and innovation
• Strong communication skills (in person, phone, and email).
• Prior experience with people management
• Prior experience leading & delivering projects independently and working in global project team setup
• Ability to work on multiple programs
• Interest in finance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the financial industry or a related field.
• Familiarity with cloud‑based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, GBQ).
• Familiarity with cloud‑based data pipeline services (e.g AWS Glue) or distributed processing frameworks like Apache Spark.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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