Risk Division - Software Engineer - Vice President - London London · United Kingdom · Vice President

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading global investment firm as a Software Engineer in the Risk Division. In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience in software development and risk technology to enhance the firm’s risk management capabilities. Collaborate with talented engineers to build innovative solutions that drive efficiency and accuracy in risk metrics delivery. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and engage in high-profile projects that have a meaningful impact on the firm’s strategic objectives. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about technology and finance, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion Programs

Training and Development Opportunities

Wellness Programs

Personal Finance Offerings

Mindfulness Programs

Qualifications

• 7+ years in risk technology, strong software development skills required.
• Experience with relational databases and data visualization tools is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for risk calculations and reporting using various technologies.
• Oversee junior team members and ensure adherence to SDLC best practices.

Skills

Software Development

Data Structures

Algorithms

Scala

Java

Python

Spark

Linux

Shell Scripting

Statistical Analysis

Multi-tasking

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Sybase IQ

HDFS

Maven

Gradle

Ant

Job description

Risk Division - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

The Risk Business identifies, monitors, evaluates, and manages the firm’s financial and non-financial risks in support of the firm’s Risk Appetite Statement and the firm’s strategic plan. Operating in a fast paced and dynamic environment and utilizing the best in class risk tools and frameworks, Risk teams are analytically curious, have an aptitude to challenge, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

Overview

To ensure uncompromising accuracy and timeliness in the delivery of the risk metrics, our platform is continuously growing and evolving. Risk Engineering combines the principles of Computer Science, Mathematics and Finance to produce large scale, computationally intensive calculations of risk Goldman Sachs faces with each transaction we engage in.

As an Engineer in the Risk Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to impact one or more aspects of risk management. You will work with a team of talented engineers to drive the build & adoption of common tools, platforms, and applications. The team builds solutions that are offered as a software product or as a hosted service. We are a dynamic team of talented developers and architects who partner with business areas and other technology teams to deliver high profile projects using a raft of technologies that are fit for purpose (Java, Cloud computing, HDFS, Spark, S3, ReactJS, Sybase IQ among many others). A glimpse of the interesting problems that we engineer solutions for, include acquiring high quality data, storing it, performing risk computations in limited amount of time using distributed computing, and making data available to enable actionable risk insights through analytical and response user interfaces.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

• Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managers
• Performance tune applications to improve memory and CPU utilization.
• Perform statistical analyses to identify trends and exceptions related to Market Risk metrics.
• Build internal and external reporting for the output of risk metric calculation using data extraction tools, such as SQL, and data visualization tools, such as Tableau.
• Utilize web development technologies to facilitate application development for front end UI used for risk management actions
• Develop software for calculations using databases like Snowflake, Sybase IQ and distributed HDFS systems.
• Interact with business users for resolving issues with applications.
• Design and support batch processes using scheduling infrastructure for calculation and distributing data to other systems.
• Oversee junior technical team members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review and production migrations.

Skills And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience working in a risk technology team in another bank or financial institution. Experience in market risk technology is a plus.
• Experience with one or more major relational/object databases.
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Comfortable with working with multiple programming languages
• Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)
• Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.
• Open to working in GS proprietary technology like Slang/SECDB
• An understanding of compute resources and the ability to interpret performance metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, threads, file handles).
• Knowledge and experience in distributed computing – parallel computation on a single machine like DASK, Distributed processing on Public Cloud.
• Knowledge of SDLC and experience in working through the entire life cycle of the project from start to end.

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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