Delivery Lead, Software Engineer - Global Banking & Markets - Vice President - London

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association); London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and entrepreneurial team at a leading global investment firm, where you will play a key role in developing high-performance trading systems. This position offers the opportunity to leverage your Java engineering expertise in a fast-paced environment, guiding the full product lifecycle from design to implementation. You will collaborate with traders and clients, utilizing data-driven approaches to enhance trading controls and ensure compliance with market regulations. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact in the financial sector, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion Programs

Training and Development Opportunities

Wellness Programs

Mindfulness Programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Java engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Experience with Event Sourcing and Data Distribution architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to design and maintain high-performance trading systems.
• Use data to guide decision-making and enhance tools.
• Communicate with stakeholders about systems and features.

Skills

Java Engineering

Data Structures

Algorithms

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Akka

Spark

MongoDB

Elastic

Hadoop

Kubernetes

Apache NiFi

Job description

YOUR IMPACT

As a member of the team, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for technology and the markets, with individuals who thrive in a fast-paced changing environment. The team takes a data driven approach to decision making and you should be willing to participate in the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring trading risks for systems and strategies used by our clients.

OUR IMPACT

Controls engineering is responsible for building the next generation firm-wide control plane for our front office desks. The successful candidate will use their deep technical skills to inform the implementation of a highly scalable message driven architecture, processing ~3bn messages per day and making 'safe to trade' determinations in real time. The role will also involve building out web applications that allow users to register, develop and administer controls on the platform.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead a team of engineers in designing, building and maintaining a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform for front to back trading systems like order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing, internalization, clearing and securities lending.

1. Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it.
2. Understand market rules, regulations, exchange service offerings, front to back business functions and build systems to facilitate them.
3. Communication with traders, sales, clients and compliance officers about new systems, feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience
2. Hands-on Java engineering with 5+ years of experience in developing Java systems.
3. Proven track record of leading a team and delivering projects with a commercial mindset.
4. Prior experience with Event Sourcing (Kafka, Akka, Spark) and Data Distribution based architecture
5. Experience with NoSQL (Mongo, Elastic, Hadoop), in memory (MEMSQL, Ignite) and relational (Sybase, DB2, SybaseIQ) data store solutions.
6. Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
7. Experience in data driven performance analysis and optimizations.
8. Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team.
9. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience with Kubernetes deployment architectures
2. Apache NiFi experience
3. Experience building trading controls within an investment bank

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.

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