Engineering-Vice President-Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation entitlements

Health and counseling services

Fitness reimbursement program

On-site child care centers

Job summary

A leading finance company seeks a Vice President of Software Engineering to enhance digital transformation and provide reliable software solutions. This role requires extensive experience in software development, especially with Java or C++, and solid skills in data management. The ideal candidate will work in a fast-paced environment, managing teams and driving process efficiencies. A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is mandatory, with a focus on innovative problem-solving and relationship-building.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software development.
• Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language.
• Demonstrated experience in data modeling and data curation.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis to maintenance.
• Develop technical specifications and implementation plans.
• Explore new technologies as needed by the project.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Team management

Fast-paced environment

Programming in Java or C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

React

SpringBoot

DropWizard

Maven

SQL databases

Job description

Engineering-Vice President-Software Engineering

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:

• Improving workflow efficiencies and governance through the systemization and automation of financial metrics and associated limits.
• Accelerating the adoption of Cloud and Core Engineering solutions.
• Establishing positions data quality, accountability, and lineage.
• Developing unified data models across assessment platforms and ensure they meet regulatory and internal Risk & Compliance management requirements.
• 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)

Job Info

• Job Identification 166054
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 03/24/2026, 04:11 PM
• Locations Dallas, Texas, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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.

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

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).

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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