Senior Software Engineer, Controllers Engineering

Job Description

What We Do :

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don't just make things - we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas.

Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.

Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

The Controllers division is responsible for financial control and regulatory obligations of the firm. They safeguard the assets of the firm through an independent scrutiny of the financial information and ensure accurate reporting to internal and external consumers.

They provide critical metrics and related analysis to the firm's and divisions' leadership to navigate the evolving business strategy, including incumbent and strategic initiatives.

Controllers play an important role in the changing landscape of the firm, including its new business ventures and acquisitions, and ensure that these new initiatives are in line with the regulatory expectations as well as controlled in terms of their incorporation into the firm.

Finance engineers help ensure the firm meets all of its financial control and reporting obligations. Working in small and nimble teams, we build critical and complex software to calculate profit and loss (P&L), measure and monitor the firm's capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory filings across the globe.

Your Impact :

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge software and platforms that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds.

We provide real-time access to critical deal information and process billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies.

Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.

You will leverage your technical skills and functional expertise in developing large scale systems used to compute P&L, balance sheet and capital of a financial services firm.

Experience in data modeling and replacing large, complex datasets in existing calculation engines would be critical in making a strong impact.

Why join this team? :

• Tools & Technologies : You'll program in Java. Other technologies in use in our space : RESTful services, Maven / Gradle, Apache Spark, BigData, HTML 5, ReactJs, IntelliJ, Gitlab, Jira.
• Cloud Technologies : You'll be involved in building the next generation of finance systems onto the cloud platforms, one of the key strategies for the division in which you'll get exposure to technologies like AWS S3, Snowflake, EMR, etc.
• Autonomy : You'll have significant autonomy in designing and writing solutions to help our stakeholders deliver for the firm's clients.
• Creativity : You'll be encouraged to suggest improvements to products and to propose ways in which we can add value for our stakeholders.
• Interpersonal Communication : You'll engage with data producers and consumers across all areas of the business to understand their requirements and to propose solutions tailored to their needs.
• Training : Your manager will support your professional development, allowing you time for training at work, helping you learn and grow within the organization, and providing opportunities for increasing responsibility.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

We are looking for senior engineers with between 8 to 12 years of hands-on development and experience managing a team of engineers in the financial services sector.

• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis to coding, testing, UAT, implementation and maintenance
• Develop high level and 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
• Provide technical and functional guidance and leadership to junior members of the team
• Build and maintain key financial metric calculation models and associated infrastructure to support forward-looking business strategies and decisions in an evolving regulatory landscape
• Work closely with a wide range of stakeholders globally

REQUIREMENTS :

• 8-12 years of hands-on software development experience preferably in Java, C / C++, Python, competent in traditional (RDBMS) and modern datastores (NoSQL), and big data pipelines
• Strong programming and problem solving skills
• A clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Strong full-stack technical design and development skills and experience
• Comfortable with multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Experience in a financial services firm with a strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet or financial reporting production processes of a regulated bank
• Strong experience with data modeling and data governance principles

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow.

Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

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, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.

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Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. 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.