VP - Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Alpha Generation Platform

Goldman Sachs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in New York, NY seeks a Vice President – Technical Program Manager to lead the Autonomous Alpha Generation Platform initiative, coordinating ML, quantitative research and platform engineering. You will architect modular frameworks, drive cross‑functional delivery, and embed HITL controls across trading desks.

The role requires deep platform leadership, advanced program management, and experience with time‑series data, MLOps, and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical program management or platform engineering within fintech/enterprise software.
• Experience leading multi‑team infrastructure projects and integrating central platform capabilities.
• Proven ability to define modular architectures, open plugins, APIs, and SDKs.
• Hands‑on with HITL governance, dashboards, and real‑time monitoring interfaces.
• Experience with enterprise MLOps, feature stores, data cataloging, and lineage tracking.
• Familiarity with time‑series data infrastructure and high‑frequency data processing.
• Knowledge of autonomous agent design patterns and quantitative trading concepts.

Responsibilities

• Provide platform leadership and drive end‑to‑end program execution for the central platform.
• Lead integration of platform infrastructure with desk‑specific applications and strategies.
• Define adoption metrics, DX, throughput, and reliability across internal client groups.
• Coordinate across Quantitative Research, Core Technology, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Risk Governance.
• Develop extensible frameworks with SDKs/APIs and plugin standards.
• Ensure HITL controls and UI dashboards with real‑time visibility and audit trails.
• Maintain compliance with Model Risk Management and regulatory standards.

Skills

Program management

Platform engineering

MLOps

Machine learning

Time-series data

HITL

UI/UX concepts

Python

C++ integration

Kubernetes

Tools

Ray

Pandas

Git

APIs & SDKs

Docker

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

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Position Overview

We are seeking a Vice President – Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive the vision, program execution, and cross-functional delivery of our central Autonomous Alpha Generation Platform. Positioned at the convergence of quantitative research, artificial intelligence, automated trading systems and scalable platform engineering, this ecosystem enables autonomous AI/ML agents and quaVntitative researchers to explore signal spaces, engineer features, evaluate statistical models, and run high‑fidelity simulations.

In this role, the TPM serves as a key strategic facilitator, program leader, and platform enabler. The primary focus is defining, building, and deploying a modular, extensible central infrastructure that seamlessly integrates into the existing workflows, software architectures, and specialized strategies of individual trading desks.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical platform leadership with experience in machine learning and automated trading systems with structured project and program management discipline. You will lead cross‑functional delivery across engineering, research, and business teams, architecting pluggable framework interfaces that allow internal teams to customize capabilities while embedding human control points and intuitive user interfaces into agentic workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Leadership & Program Management
• Drive end‑to‑end project management and program execution for the central platform, establishing clear delivery milestones, release schedules, and cross‑functional dependencies across multi‑team engineering sprints.
• Lead integration initiatives to tie central platform infrastructure into the desk‑specific applications, execution systems, and strategy frameworks of individual trading teams.
• Define and measure platform adoption, developer experience (DX), throughput velocity, and system reliability metrics across internal client groups.
• Coordinate cross‑functional alignment across Quantitative Research, Core Technology, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Risk Governance teams.
• Extensible Frameworks & Modular Integration
• Drive an open, highly flexible platform architecture, establishing SDKs, APIs, and plugin standards that enable internal clients and trading desks to easily plug in their own proprietary capabilities, custom analytical modules and execution simulators.
• Abstract core platform mechanisms so desk quants retain full flexibility over their proprietary trading logic while benefiting from centralized compute, data storage, and automated strategy exploration infrastructure.
• Maintain standardized validation contracts, parameter sweep frameworks, and cross‑asset evaluation hooks across all integrated plugins.
• Human Control Points & User Interface Design
• Define requirements for Human‑in‑the‑Loop (HITL) control mechanisms, establishing structured approval gates, confidence thresholds, and real‑time intervention capabilities within autonomous agent workflows.
• Address user interface (UI/UX) challenges by partnering with front‑end engineering teams to deliver intuitive dashboards and control centers that provide quants and portfolio managers with real‑time visibility, inspection tools, audit trails, and manual override controls over agent decisions.
• Ensure all workflow checkpoints comply with internal Model Risk Management (MRM) and regulatory oversight standards.
• Core Data & MLOps Infrastructure
• Direct requirements for scalable, central data and feature infrastructure, ensuring strict point‑in‑time integrity and dataset lineage tracking across raw, synthetic, and model‑derived data assets.
• Establish unified cataloging, metadata searchability, and data discovery interfaces to support seamless asset exploration by both human researchers and automated agents.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in technical program management, platform engineering management, or enterprise software delivery within financial technology, investment banking, quantitative hedge funds, or enterprise SaaS.
• Program & Project Management: Demonstrated success leading complex, multi‑team infrastructure projects, managing technical roadmaps, tracking dependencies, and successfully integrating central platform capabilities into client‑facing or desk‑specific environments.
• Platform Architecture & Extensibility: Proven ability to define platform requirements for modular architectures, open plugin frameworks, APIs, and SDKs designed for internal developer ecosystems.
• Human‑in‑the‑Loop & UI/UX Design: Hands‑on experience defining workflow control points, governance checkpoints, and user‑facing monitoring/dashboard interfaces for automated or semi‑autonomous software systems.
• Machine Learning & MLOps Infrastructure:
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise MLOps architecture, feature stores, data cataloging, model registries, and automated lineage tracking.
• Experience managing time‑series data infrastructure, including high‑frequency tick data storage, time‑series transformations, and point‑in‑time compliance.
• Familiarity with autonomous agent design patterns (e.g., tool usage, planning loops, intervention thresholds, dynamic execution).
• Domain Awareness: Familiarity with quantitative trading concepts, financial markets, or systematic research workflows.

Desirable Technical Capabilities

• Programming & Frameworks: Proficiency with Python (e.g., Pandas, PyTorch, Ray, Celery) and C++ integration patterns for high‑performance enterprise platforms.
• Front‑End & UI Tooling: Familiarity with modern user interface frameworks, operational monitoring tools, and workflow visualization applications.
• Compute & Data Infrastructure: Understanding of modern distributed compute orchestration (e.g., Ray, Kubernetes), time‑series databases, and cloud data lake architectures (e.g., Apache Parquet, Iceberg).

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States‑based position is $150,000-$300,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year‑end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non‑temporary, full‑time and part‑time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

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