The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham Birmingham · United Kingdom · Vice President

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs in Birmingham seeks a Software Engineer at Vice President level to help build and operate the platforms powering regulatory submissions and data workflows. You will take features end-to-end in Agile teams, from requirements through release and run, collaborating with Finance stakeholders to translate regulatory needs into technical designs.

You will contribute to data modelling, develop scalable solutions, and create reusable components for cross-team use.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a numerate/technical discipline.
• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong analysis and design skills including data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on programming in Java / Python.
• Strong communication with both technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and own systems that produce the firm’s regulatory submissions to global regulators.
• Take features end to end in an Agile team — requirements, design, code, test, UAT, release and run.
• Produce technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
• Work with Finance stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into data workflows and specifications.
• Build reusable solutions for cross-team adoption and contribute to data modelling for large datasets.

Skills

Java/Python

Strong communication

Data structures

Algorithms

Performance-oriented design

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Distributed microservices

Snowflake

Spark

Glue

Kafka

S3

Lambda

Copilot/Claude Tooling

Job description

The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

The Core Engineering

The Core Engineering builds and operates the platforms, applications, data solutions, models, and analytics that power critical processes for The Core divisions of the firm (e.g., Risk, responsible for the risk profile of firm activities; Controllers, responsible for the financial control and reporting obligations; Compliance, responsible for the firm’s compliance, regulatory, and reputational risks; Corporate Treasury, responsible for the firm’s liquidity, funding, balance sheet, etc.; and Human Capital Management, responsible for attracting, developing, and managing a global workforce). A centralized engineering structure in support of The Core enables a common platform model and operating framework that promotes consistent governance and scalable solutions, leveraging cloud, AI, and machine learning for innovation and efficiency. The Core Engineering’s 2,000+ engineers and strats deliver engineering, data, analytics, and quantitative capabilities within six business units:

• Metrics & Analytics Platforms: responsible for the measurement and management of the firm’s risk, capital, and liquidity for The Core functions
• The Core Strats: responsible for the development and implementation of models and other quantitative methodologies, including the accuracy and attribution of modeled metrics
• Financials & Reporting: responsible for facilitating the production of the firm’s financials and a wide range of reporting functions
• Non-Financial Risk & Controls: responsible for non-financial risk and control processes
• Enterprise Platforms: responsible for platforms and applications that support critical operational processes across The Core such as payments, people processes, and procurement
• Shared Services: responsible for driving the adoption of consistent engineering strategy, including data platforms, cloud, and AI enablement, as well as the management of technology risk

What you'll do

• Build and own the systems that produce the firm’s regulatory submissions to global regulators
• Take features end to end in an Agile team — requirements, design, code, test, UAT, release and run
• Produce technical designs, testing strategies and implementation plans
• Work directly with Finance stakeholders to turn regulatory requirements into workflows, data requirements and specifications
• Build reusable solutions other teams can adopt, and spot opportunities to collaborate across divisions
• Contribute to data modelling and curation for large-scale financial datasets

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a numerate/technical discipline
• 4+ years of software development experience
• Strong analysis and design skills, including data structures, algorithms and performance-oriented design
• Hands-on programming experience in Java / Python
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences

We'd also love to see (you don't need all of these)

• Working knowledge of cloud, ideally AWS (S3, SQS, Lambda, Fargate) or equivalents
• Experience with distributed, microservices-based applications
• Solutions architecture and system design experience
• Strong database and data modelling skills
• Experience with agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot Agent Mode, Devin) and spec-driven development
• Big data / Lakehouse (Snowflake), ETL pipelines (Spark, Glue), or event streaming (Kafka)

Interest in investment banking or financial instruments

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.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

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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 Services

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).

Child Care & Family Care

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.

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