Cloud Migration - Software Engineer -Vice President-Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Warsaw seeks a seasoned Software Engineer to join the Cloud Platform team, responsible for researching, architecting, and building a cutting-edge cloud platform that enables safe and secure deployment and management of services across the firm.

The role emphasizes DevOps practices and collaboration with cross-functional teams to innovate faster while ensuring safety, security, and compliance in cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience with at least 2+ years of familiarity with AWS services.
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• Familiarity with configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring.
• Skilled in implementing architectural governance.
• Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders.
• Comfort with agile operating models.

Responsibilities

• Hands on Cloud engineer focusing on migrating workloads to the public cloud.
• Working knowledge of AWS services and design principles.
• Thrive in a multi-project environment, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud.
• Architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures.
• Proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle.
• Possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.
• Independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous environment.
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products.
• Build services to integrate on-premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure patterns for development teams.
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving.
• Manage full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise.
• Partner with colleagues across Engineering to ensure an outstanding user experience for development teams deploying apps and infrastructure.
• Promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS services

DevOps culture

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS CDK

TypeScript

NPM

CloudFormation

Job description

Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in Artificial Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles, and you will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting‑edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a DevOps culture and contribute to customer‑centric product development. They will work closely with cross‑functional teams, and will be creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast‑paced global environment.

Responsibilities And Qualifications

As part of our global Cloud Development team you will work on various components as a Software Engineer. Your role includes specification, development, testing and releasing of new features. The team owns the platforms throughout the lifecycle. You are expected to contribute to the vision, understand our customers’ needs, business goals, product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within the team. We expect the successful candidate to deliver high quality software and to be passionate about software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development, security and the mechanisms to design safe, resilient and highly‑available cloud native services.

Key Responsibilities

• You are a hands on Cloud engineer who will focus on migrating workloads to the public cloud.
• You have working knowledge of AWS services and design principles.
• You thrive in a multi‑project environment, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud.
• You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi‑tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures.
• You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle.
  You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision‑making to arrive at
  creative and commercial solutions.
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi‑directional work environment.
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Collaborate with a globally‑distributed cross functional team in building customer‑centric products.
• Build services to integrate on‑premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready‑to‑consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services.
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving.
• Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development,
  release and demise.
• Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience
  for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure.
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure
  management across the firm.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 2 plus; years of familiarity with AWS services.
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring.
• Skilled in implementing architectural governance.
• Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders.
• Comfort with agile operating models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud migrations.
• Understanding of Solution Engineering practices.
• Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript, NPM, CloudFormation.

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 several 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 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

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

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).

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

Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer..

Learn More