UX Designer – Data Platform Engineering - Associate - Stockholm

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 860,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs seeks a design-minded engineer to shape how users interact with data infrastructure in a hybrid role blending design and software engineering. You will design and build the user-facing tooling of the Lakehouse platform and ensure a smooth UX across data workflows, prototyping in Figma and writing code.

You will work with stakeholders and users to translate complex data concepts into intuitive interfaces, emphasizing design thinking, governance and reliability while collaborating

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, prototyping and working with design systems.
• Strong grounding in design thinking and human-centered design.
• Excellent communication skills, presenting design work and facilitating meetings.
• Independent thinker, willing to engage, challenge and learn with strong ownership.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Design thinking

User-centered design

Communication

Independent thinker

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS / HCI / Design

Tools

Figma

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.
• 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.

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.

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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