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

Goldman Sachs; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs seeks a Vice President Software Engineer in Controllers Engineering to lead and scale a high performing team. You will shape platforms that manage P&L, capital, and regulatory metrics with AI-powered reconciliation and cloud-native design.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross‑functional collaboration, and deliver robust data platforms across global teams in a fast‑paced finance environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proven leadership experience mentoring engineers.
• Experience with cloud migrations and modern platforms.
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI-powered automations.
• Strong design, testing, and implementation planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a high performing team of 10+ engineers.
• Design and implement platforms for P&L, capital, and regulatory needs.
• Develop and drive technical designs, tests, and rollout plans.
• Collaborate with global teams across Americas, EMEA & Asia.

Skills

Leadership & mentoring

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Java / Python

Cloud migrations

LLMs / AI automation

Agile / cross-functional

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or related

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Apache Spark

ReactJs/NextJs

Java, Python

RESTful services

Maven/Gradle

Terraform

Gitlab

IntelliJ/VSCode

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION
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.

Functional Overview
JOB DESCRIPTION
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 firmwide 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