Associate Risk Platform Engineer — Build Bank-Grade Analytics

Goldman Sachs

Dallas (TX)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Goldman Sachs in Dallas is seeking an Associate level Software Engineer in Capital Risk Engineering to contribute to scalable risk metrics and data platform operations across an international team. You will work with Java, Python, Spark, SQL and Tableau to build reporting, optimize performance, and support risk calculations, collaborating with risk managers and business users.

This role offers exposure to GS proprietary tech and distributed systems, with opportunities to influence core risk

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
3-5 years’ experience working with risk technology teams in a large investment or retail bank, or a comparable financial institution.
Experience in credit risk management functions and processes, knowledge of major regulatory deliverables for credit risk and expertise in related technology is required
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 programming languages, including learning proprietary software coding when required
Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)
Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.
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

Responsibilities

This role is for a Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managers
You will apply your prior experience and expertise of working in credit risk domain at a large bank or financial institution, and ramp up very quickly to work with the global team
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.