Internal Audit - Front End Engineer - Analyst / Associate - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in Birmingham is seeking an Internal Audit Front End Engineer at Analyst/Associate level to design and deliver scalable front-end solutions within audit platforms. You will collaborate across engineering teams to implement low-latency web interfaces and data-driven features supporting risk and controls across the firm.

The role emphasizes strong communication, agile collaboration, and hands-on development with modern web stacks such as React/Angular.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of application development engineering experience.
• Experience building transactional systems and strong architecture understanding.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail and analytical thinking; able to work independently and with others.
• Frontend web-stack development experience.

Responsibilities

• Gain satisfaction by adding value and contributing to team initiatives.
• Propose, design, and implement software solutions to enhance services and enable new functions; participate in architecture discussions.
• Work with other engineering teams to develop data feeds.
• Collaborate with global user groups to support and enhance applications for new requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.

Skills

Frontend development

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Software architecture

Application development

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

React

Angular

Spring

Hibernate

RabbitMQ

Hazelcast

GitLab

Kubernetes

PL-SQL

Job description

Internal Audit - Front End Engineer - Analyst / Associate - Birmingham,

Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

ABOUT THE JOB

WHAT WE DO

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. We change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas and solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Our engineering teams build 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. In Internal Audit, we ensure that Goldman Sachs maintains effective controls by assessing the reliability of financial reports, monitoring the firm’s compliance with laws and regulations, and advising management on developing smart control solutions. Our group has unique insight on the financial industry and its products and operations. Internal Audit Engineering owns a broad range of systems that enable the firm to address the cross-cutting need of Auditing. We are currently taking up initiatives to build new and innovative solutions in addition to re-engineering our existing systems and applications. We have a strong pipeline of business transformational projects aimed at automating our workflows and re-defining the way we conduct Audit at Goldman Sachs.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for detail-oriented team players who have an interest in financial markets and effectively meet the demands of our challenging mandate that requires a passion for learning as well as deep understanding and experience across a wide array of technical competencies. We are looking for developers who will play a key role in driving some of these transformational efforts. Strong communication skills are key, we expect you to constructively volunteer reasoned views and opinions in different team forums, both technically but also on how we’re performing as an Agile team.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL – JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• As a member of the team, you will gain satisfaction though adding value and contributing to the team’s initiatives


• 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


• Work closely with the global user group to support and enhance the applications to meet new requirements


• Understand the business workflows to assist in analyzing and converting business requirements into technical specifications

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)


• Minimum 2 years of application development engineering experience


• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture


• Strong written and verbal communication skills


• Good attention to detail and analytical thinking Ability to work independently and in collaboration with other team members


• Front end web-stack development

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• REST based Web services


• Experience with Microservice architecture


• Experience with React and Angular


• Experience with Spring, Hibernate, Rabbit MQ, Hazelcast Experience with Gitlab and Kubernetes


• Basic PL-SQL knowledge to be able to run queries and participate in data analysis


• Experience working at a financial institution


• Familiar with Test Driven Development


• Conceptual understanding of Asynchronous-Event-based processing Agile methodology experience

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

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Job Info

• Job Identification 175475


• Job Category Associate


• Locations Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Healthcare & Medical Services

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

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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