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Risk - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham

Goldman Sachs, Inc.

Birmingham

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days ago

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Job summary

Goldman Sachs is looking for a Vice President of Risk Software Engineering in Birmingham. The role focuses on building and adopting tools and platforms that enhance risk management metrics, requiring expertise in software development and risk technology. Candidates should possess a degree in a relevant technical field and have extensive experience in collaborating within global teams to deliver high-profile projects.

Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion Programs
Training and Development Opportunities
Health and Wellness Programs
Mindfulness Programs

Qualifications

  • 6-9 years' experience in risk technology, preferably in financial sectors.
  • Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Experienced in software development and project life cycles.

Responsibilities

  • Driving software development for risk metrics.
  • Creating internal and external reporting for risk metrics.
  • Overseeing junior team members in the Software Development Life Cycle.

Skills

Statistical Analysis
Application Performance Tuning
Multi-tasking
Team Collaboration
Web Development
Distributed Computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Scala
Java
Python
Spark
Linux
Apache Airflow
DASK

Job description

Risk - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham

Risk - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham
Goldman Sachs, Inc. Birmingham, United Kingdom Apply now Posted 1 month ago Permanent Competitive

Risk - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham

Job Description

RISK BUSINESS

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 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
• 6-9 years' experience is working risk technology team in another bank, 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 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.
• Should be ready to work 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 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.

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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