VP, Systems Engineer / Software Engineer - Cloud Enablement (Dallas, TX)

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.

Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment. Apply now or email your resume, availability to interview, and a brief summary of your experience directly to [email protected]!

Who We Are - Cloud Enablement
The Cloud Enablement Team within Core Engineering is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services, as well as infrastructure management practices within the firm. You will be working as part of a global, multidisciplinary team responsible for researching, architecting, and building cutting-edge tools, systems and best practices for Engineers across Goldman Sachs. We are at an early stage of modernizing our application stacks around cloud native principles, and migrating business workloads to the cloud. You will be directly helping to implement and influence technology strategies that will give our business a competitive edge. This role can be made available in India or Singapore as well.

How You Will Fulfill You Potential

• You are a hands on Cloud engineer who will focus on migrating workloads to the public cloud
• You have working knowledge of AWS services and design principles
• You thrive in a multi-project environment, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud
• You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures
• You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle
• You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at
  creative and commercial solutions
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products
• Build services to integrate on-premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide
  consistent, secure, and ready-to-consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving
• Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development,
  release and demise
• Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm

Skills and Experience We Are Looking For

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 2+ years of familiarity with AWS services
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
• Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring
• Skilled in implementing architectural governance
• Practiced in JavaScript / Typescript / Node
• Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders
• Comfort with agile operating models

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud migrations
• Understanding of Solution Engineering practices
• Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript, NPM, CloudFormation