The Core Engineering-Bengaluru-Vice President-Software Engineering Bengaluru · India · Vice President

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Senior Developer to join the Risk Business Core Engineering team in Bengaluru. You will help build risk software platforms, optimize performance, and deliver scalable risk calculations using Spark, SQL, and modern data tools.

You will collaborate with risk managers and global teams, work across Java, Python, Scala, and web UI, and contribute to end-to-end SDLC in a fast-paced financial engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 6-9 years’ experience in risk technology within banking or financial institutions.
• Experience with major relational / object databases.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Ability to multitask and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Proficient in multiple programming languages.
• Proficient in Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux, shell scripting, and JUnit.
• Experience with Apache Airflow; familiarity with Slang/SECDB.
• Understanding of distributed computing and cloud compute resources.
• Knowledge of SDLC and end-to-end project life cycle.

Responsibilities

• 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 in Market Risk metrics.
• Build internal and external reporting for risk metrics using SQL and Tableau.
• Utilize web development technologies to support front-end UI for risk actions.
• Develop software for calculations using Snowflake, Sybase IQ and HDFS.
• Interact with business users to resolve application issues.
• Design and support batch processes using scheduling infrastructure.
• Oversee junior team members across SDLC including design reviews and migrations.

Skills

Senior Developer

Performance tuning

Statistical analyses

SQL

Tableau

UI development

Scala

Java

Python

Spark

Linux

Shell scripting

JUnit

Airflow

Slang/SECDB

AWS/Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

Snowflake

Sybase IQ

HDFS

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 Core 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

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

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

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.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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