Technical Lead

Coforge; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking specialists for AppBank in the Technology Division to run the Bank’s production management systems. The role focuses on analyzing and resolving issues, reducing defects and improving system stability in a complex production environment.

Responsibilities include incident management, trend analysis, and collaboration with AppDev teams and stakeholders to implement robust fixes and automated health monitoring.

Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of data structures and algorithms used in production systems.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues in development or production environments.
• Experience with Unix/Linux environments and ETL/batch processing concepts.
• Strong communication to convey technical issues to stakeholders and teams.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, C, C++, VB, .NET, ASP, Angular).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Shell, Perl, JavaScript, Python).
• Familiarity with RDBMS like Oracle, DB2 or Sybase ASE/IQ.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to analyze and resolve application issues.
• Identify defects, discrepancies, and trends through debugging and log analysis.
• Manage incidents and communicate with users and stakeholders.
• Improve stability and performance by detecting patterns and implementing fixes.
• Automate failures using tools and monitor health of production systems.
• Identify automatable alerts/processes and coordinate with engineering teams.
• Challenge existing setups to improve processing and reliability.
• Participate in Change Management to minimize risk in production.

Skills

Data structures

Problem solving

Unix troubleshooting

ETL / batch processes

Communication skills

Programming languages

Scripting languages

RDBMS (Oracle/DB2/Sybase)

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

Specialists in AppBank, the Technology Division’s “Run-The-Bank” production management organization in Goldman Sachs. Specialist role in the production management function for technologies and systems that support the Firm’s various business functions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work actively with team members to analyze and resolve application issues
• Identify defects, discrepancies, and trends by ways of code debugging or log analysis
• Manage incidents and effectively communicate with users, application owners and senior stakeholders across all areas
• Improve application stability and performance by observing patterns, recurring failures and/or issues, and advise application owners on permanent fixes accordingly
• Adopt various tools developed by AppBank Engineering team to automate failures using machine learning techniques and notify discrepancies in the health of production and automation of health-restoration, with a focus on continuous measurement of risk and cost.
• Identify alerts / processes that can be automated and then work with AppBank Engineering team in automating them
• Challenge existing application setup, processing and suggest different ways to solve problem or improve stability
• Actively participate in Change management process with view to manage risk in production environment
• Build and improve run books for generalists to minimize operational errors and gain fungibility/efficiency
• Develop reports that provide trending statistics to track and manage application health and support service performance
• Willing to learn and troubleshoot/support proprietary technologies not available through market place. No knowledge of proprietary technologies is required pre-hire

MUST HAVE SKILLS AND/OR LICESNSES REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE JOB:

• Computer Science concept of Data Structures in practical use cases
• Problem solving in a development or production environment, including experience observing patterns, analyzing root cause and suggesting ideas to resolve issues
• Good unix trouble shooting skills, Good understanding of ETL / batch Processes and capacity management
• Good communication skills with ability to articulate the technical and functional aspects of a development/production problem to help drive solutions with App Dev teams and senior stakeholders
• One of the following Structured or Object Oriented programming languages: Java, C, C++, VB, .NET, ASP or Angular etc.
• One of the following Scripting languages: Shell script, Perl, JavaScript or Python etc.
• One of the following RDBMS environments: Sybase ASE/IQ, Oracle or DB2 OPTIONAL

SKILLS OR QUALIFICATION ( NICE TO HAVE )

• Experience in the Financial Service Industry
• Experience in Cluster Computing and Big Data solutions: Spark, Hadoop, HDSF, XRS using public cloud
• Degree in Computer Science