Engineering-Vice President-Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs; Dallas (WV); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is looking for a Vice President Software Engineer to drive digital transformation and deploy scalable software solutions. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced environment, managing the development cycle from analysis to implementation, while ensuring high-quality data solutions.

Applicants should have a strong programming background, particularly in Java or C++, and significant experience in software development is required. The firm values strong problem solvers who can lead teams and engage with stakeholders effectively.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software development.
• Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language.
• Preferably experienced managing small to mid-size teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle.
• Develop technical specifications and design plans.
• Build strong relationships with business partners.

Skills

Software development

Data modelling

Problem solving

Stakeholder engagement

Full Stack development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Java

C++

React

SpringBoot

Databricks

Job description

Who We Are:

The CF&O Shared Services Engineering team (CFOSS) is a centralized group within Engineering that supports divisional objectives of Compliance, Risk, Controllers and Corporate Treasury. The team provides common services cross-divisionally in order to realize efficiencies and establish best practices across the organization. The team’s core priorities include:

1. Improving workflow efficiencies and governance through the systemization and automation of financial metrics and associated limits.
2. Accelerating the adoption of Cloud and Core Engineering solutions.
3. Establishing positions data quality, accountability, and lineage.
4. Developing unified data models across assessment platforms and ensure they meet regulatory and internal Risk & Compliance management requirements.
5. Support the development of analytic calculations and data transformations.

Who We Look For:

This Vice President Software Engineer role is for a professional who is passionate about bringing business impact through digital transformation and deployment of scalable and reliable software solutions. The CF&O divisions have a large footprint of software applications to ensure the firm complies with the controls set forth in its policies and risk appetite, meet its regulatory obligations, and to protect the firm’s reputation. To meet the demand of the business, driven by the size and complexity of the entire firm, the candidate will have the mandate to continuously increase the level of automation and to modernize and consolidate our software stacks. In addition, data is at the center of what we do. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experiences in and a passion for solving critical problems related to data modelling and data curation including data quality, warehousing, and analytics.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential:

• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance
• Build strong relationships with business partners
• Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance
• Exploring new and emerging technologies as needed by the project

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 8+ years of relevant experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, core programming concepts and experiences with continuous delivery and deployment
• Excellent communicator who is comfortable engaging stakeholders, both verbally and written
• A strong problem solver, organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment with delivery focus as part of a global team
• Preferably experienced managing small to mid-size teams
• Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language (e.g. Java, C++)
• Full Stack experience with industry standard frameworks and tools (e.g. React, SpringBoot, DropWizard, Maven, Web/RESTful service development)
• Knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in the financial services domain delivering software to front-office users or Controllers/Finance/Accounting teams
• Experience in delivering solutions built on cloud-based, large-scale data analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake)
• Experience working with vendor or in-house data catalog platforms (e.g. Unity Catalog, Open Catalog, Apache Polaris)