Risk Cloud-Dallas-Associate-Software Engineering

Job Description

Risk division develops comprehensive processes to monitor, assess, and manage the risk of expected and unexpected events that may have an adverse impact on the firm. Risk teams play a critical function for the firm, driving how the firm takes and manages risk. Financial Risk Applications is at the forefront of developing world class engineering solutions which are highly impactful in making sure the firm is well equipped to deal with any adverse market, liquidity or credit event ( e.g. 2008 financial crisis ). This includes computing billions of scenarios on a daily basis, transporting and storing it, building rich analytics, generating insights and coming up with innovative ways to visualize/disseminate information. We need passionate software engineers with good programming skills ready to use Java, JavaScript, Python, React, Apache Spark and open source data science toolkits to build solutions that offer best in class experience to our risk managers and analysts.

As an Engineer in the Risk Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to impact one or more aspects of risk management. You will work with a global team of talented engineers to drive the build & adoption of common tools, platforms, and applications. The team builds solutions that are offered as a software product or as a hosted service. We are a dynamic team of talented developers and architects who partner with business areas and other technology teams to deliver high profile projects using a raft of technologies that are fit for purpose. At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation and meritocracy. We often say our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally. From collaborative work spaces and mindfulness classes to working from home and flexible work options, we offer our people the support they need to reach their goals in and outside the office.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• This role is for a Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managers
• You will apply your prior experience and expertise of working in risk domain at a large bank or financial institution, and ramp up very quickly to work with the global team
• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Risk
• Oversee junior technical team members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review and production migrations.
• Build disruptive solutions using cutting edge technologies with measurable commercial outcomes
• Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance
• Build strong relationships with business partners and front line risk managers
• Lead talented software engineers who are passionate about identifying patterns and building common solutions

Skills And Experience We Are Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
• 3-4 years' experience working with risk technology teams in a large investment or retail bank, or a comparable financial institution.
• Experience in risk management functions and processes, knowledge of major regulatory deliverables for risk and expertise in related technology is required
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Can apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience in team lead

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong programming experience in at least one language
• Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.
• Comfortable with working with multiple programming languages, including learning proprietary software coding when required
• Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)
• Knowledge and experience in distributed computing - parallel computation on a single machine like DASK, Distributed processing on Public Cloud.
• Knowledge of SDLC and experience in working through entire life cycle of the project from start to end
• Experience with continuous delivery and deployment
• Proficient at working with large and complex code bases

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Risk
• Build disruptive solutions using cutting edge technologies with measurable commercial outcomes
• Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
• Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance
• Build strong relationships with business partners and front line risk managers
• Lead talented software engineers who are passionate about identifying patterns and building common solutions

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Can apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong programming experience in at least one language
• Comfortable with working with multiple languages
• Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)
• Experience with continuous delivery and deployment
• Proficient at working with large and complex code bases

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