Controllers, Data Reconciliation, Dallas, Vice President, Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

On-site health centers

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Bank AG in Dallas, TX seeks a senior engineering leader to design and build scalable financial software for P&L, capital and regulatory reporting. You will guide architecture, drive cloud adoption, and manage cross-functional teams delivering mission-critical systems used by global revenue and risk teams.

You will partner with stakeholders to define long-term product vision, mentor engineers, and ensure robust delivery of high-quality software in a fast-paced, regulated financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of Engineering Industry experience.
• 5+ years of development experience with Java and other programming languages.
• Knowledge of traditional (RDBMS) and modern datastores (NoSQL).
• Preferred experience with Cloud.
• Experience designing and architecting systems.
• Experience defining a long term vision for a product.
• Strong project and people management skills.
• Experience building and sustaining long-term relationships with stakeholders and colleagues.
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally.
• Experience in financial domain.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial systems to manage P&L, capital, balance sheet, liquidity, and regulatory obligations.
• Define vision for systems supporting future business strategies in evolving regulation.
• Partner with divisions and engineering teams to meet goals.
• Understand business needs, develop workflow, data requirements and specs for implementation.
• Develop high-level and detailed technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
• Implement and maintain best practices for software development and engineering processes.

Skills

Java

Cloud

System design

People management

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Financial domain

RDBMS

NoSQL

Architecting systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

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.

The Controllers division is responsible for financial control and regulatory obligations of the firm. They safeguard the assets of the firm through an independent scrutiny of the financial information and ensure accurate reporting to internal and external consumers. They provide critical metrics and related analysis to the firm’s and divisions’ leadership to navigate the evolving business strategy, including incumbent and strategic initiatives. Controllers play an important role in the changing landscape of the firm, including its new business ventures and acquisitions, and ensure that these new initiatives are in line with the regulatory expectations as well as controlled in terms of their incorporation into the firm

Controllers engineers help ensure the firm meets all its financial control and reporting obligations. Working in small and nimble teams, we build critical and complex software to calculate profit and loss (P&L), measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory filings across the globe.

OUR Impact:

Finance Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing solutions to manage the firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations. Our global agile teams (based across Americas, EMEA, and Asia) develop and manage the platforms, calculation engines, and analytical tools that controllers, risk management, and deal-making teams use to project, monitor and report externally to regulators for both regular business activity and under stress scenarios

YOUR Impact:

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge software and platforms that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to critical deal information and process billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field. You will leverage your technical skills and functional expertise in P&L, balance sheet or regulatory capital (Basel 3) to build new infrastructure for the firm’s books and records or for new regulatory capital rules released as part of Basel 3 End game. The position would provide a unique opportunity to drive one of the most impactful initiatives at the firm and to directly engage with colleagues and senior management across revenue areas, Risk and Engineering.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Build and maintain financial systems that manage the firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations.
• Defining the vision for the systems that can support our forward-looking business strategies and decisions in an evolving regulatory landscape.
• Partnering with other divisions and engineering teams to ensure we meet our goals.
• Understand and respond to business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation.
• Develop high level and detailed technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
• Implement and maintain best practices for software development and engineering processes.

SKLLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 10+ years of Engineering Industry experience
• 5+ years of development experience with Java and other programming languages
• Knowledge of traditional (RDBMS) and modern datastores (NoSQL)
• Preferred experience with Cloud
• Experience designing and architecting systems
• Experience defining a long term vision for a product
• Strong project and people management skills
• Experience building and sustaining long-term relationships with stakeholders and colleagues
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Experience in financial domain

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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