The Core Engineering-L2-Dallas-Vice President-Software Engineering

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

Job summary

Goldman Sachs (lateral) seeks a Vice President Software Engineer to lead and scale a high-performing team within Controllers Engineering. You will architect and deliver AI-powered, cloud-native reconciliation platforms that handle P&L, capital, liquidity, and regulatory metrics across global teams.

The role emphasizes mentorship, cloud migration, and collaboration with finance, risk, and deal teams to ensure accurate, auditable, and scalable data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• Hands-on software engineering with cloud and data platforms; experience with modern tech stacks.
• Proven leadership experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers.
• Experience with cloud migration and transforming legacy systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a 10+ engineer team across global squads.
• Design and implement platforms to manage P&L, capital, balance sheet, liquidity, and regulatory metrics.
• Modernize the Data Reconciliation Platform into an AI-powered cloud-native solution.
• Collaborate with business partners and cross-divisional teams to drive scalable, reusable solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

AI platforms

RESTful services

Apache Spark

BigData

ReactJs/NextJs

IntelliJ/VSCode

Gitlab

Kubernetes/Terraform

Job description

Functional Overview

As a Vice President Software Engineer within Controllers Engineering, you will lead, mentor, and scale a high performing team of 10+ engineers. Controllers Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing solutions to manage firm's profit and loss (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 & 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.

Data Reconciliation Platform is a firm-wide data consistency and control platform that reconciles, normalizes, and governs high-volume data-matching records across sources, flagging discrepancies, and tracking their resolution via intelligent, policy-driven workflows-to ensure accuracy, compliance, and trusted business operations. It is being modernized into AI-powered fully cloud-native reconciliation platform will autonomously match, validate, assign and explain exceptions across all businesses-delivering real-time accuracy, auditability, and insight at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Tool & Technologies we use: AWS solutions, AI platforms, Java, Python, RESTful services, Maven/Gradle, Apache Spark, BigData, ReactJs/NextJs, IntelliJ/VSCode, Gitlab, Kubernates/Terraform.
• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Proven leadership experience managing and mentoring more junior engineers
• Cloud migration experience, leading complex transformations for legacy systems
• Familiarity with LLMs, AI-powered automations, prompt engineering concepts.
• Develop high level/detailed technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans
• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance
• Understand and respond to business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Build strong relationships with business partners
• Identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration and reuse of common solutions