UX Designer – Data Platform Engineering - Associate - Stockholm

Goldman Sachs; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a designer-turned-engineer to shape how users interact with our Lakehouse data platform. You will work across design and software engineering to design, build and maintain user-facing tooling that empowers analysts and data scientists.

You will partner with users to understand their workflows, validate ideas with prototypes in Figma, and translate feedback into reliable, well-governed solutions across the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS, HCI, Design, or related field.
• 2–5 years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency with Figma, prototyping, and design systems.
• Strong grounding in design thinking and human-centered design.
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript and React; web standards knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills for presenting design work and collaboration.
• Independent thinker with ownership and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain the user-facing tooling of the Lakehouse platform.
• Collaborate with users to understand workflows and shape fitting solutions.
• Partner with stakeholders on design decisions and act on feedback.

Skills

Design thinking

User-centered design

Communication

Independent thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or related field

Tools

Figma

JavaScript

React

Job description

The Opportunity

Join a team building the data foundations that support the firm’s AI and analytics capabilities. This role sits within the engineering effort to develop a modern Lakehouse and AI data platform that enables reliable, well-governed and high-performing data use across the firm. This is a hybrid engineering and design role for someone who wants to shape how users interact with complex data infrastructure – and then help build it. You will be comfortable working both in Figma and writing code.

Role Summary

Working across both design and software engineering, you will:

• Design, build and maintain the user-facing tooling of the Lakehouse platform, owning the design process end to end.
• Work closely with users to understand their workflows and shape solutions that fit how they work.
• Partner with stakeholders on design decisions and build on their feedback.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency with Figma, including prototyping and working with design systems.
• Strong grounding in design thinking and human-centered design.
• Hands‑on experience with JavaScript and React, and a good understanding of web standards and best practices.
• Excellent communication skills, whether presenting design work, facilitating meetings, or working with subject matter experts to draw out critical business concepts.
• Independent thinker, willing to engage, challenge and learn, with a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Object-oriented design and programming skills in Java or a comparable language.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their data services.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and lakehouse solutions (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Apache Iceberg).

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.