Senior VP, Core Engineering: Financial Platforms

Goldman Sachs (lateral); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Core Engineering seeks an experienced engineer to build and operate platforms, data solutions, and analytics across risk, controls, and finance domains. The role focuses on P&L, capital, balance sheet, and regulatory systems within a global engineering team.

Applicants should bring 10+ years in engineering with strong Java development, system architecture skills, and experience with traditional and modern datastores, plus cloud familiarity. Collaboration across regions is required.

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.
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally.
• Experience in financial domain.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Java development

Cloud

Systems design

Communication

Financial domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

RDBMS

NoSQL

Job description

Goldman Sachs Core Engineering seeks an experienced engineer to build and operate platforms, data solutions, and analytics across risk, controls, and finance domains. The role focuses on P&L, capital, balance sheet, and regulatory systems within a global engineering team.

Applicants should bring 10+ years in engineering with strong Java development, system architecture skills, and experience with traditional and modern datastores, plus cloud familiarity. Collaboration across regions is required.