Transaction Banking - TxB Financial Risk Eng - Vice President - Bengaluru

Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers dont 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.

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. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Transaction Banking

Transaction Banking, a business unit within Platform Solutions, aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for corporations. Transaction Banking combines the strength and heritage of a 148-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Using modern technologies centered on data and analytics, we provide customers with powerful tools that are grounded in value, transparency and simplicity to improve cash flow management efficiency.

The Team

Financial Risk Engineering is a global team with presence in New York, London, Bengaluru and Dallas. We are responsible for the technical design and development of systems that protect the firm and our clients from Financial Crime including real time fraud prevention and compliance with global sanctions and regulatory requirements, using existing and emerging technologies.

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.

The Role

In this role you will be responsible for setting up and leading the team in Bengaluru. As a senior software engineer, you will be expected to drive the design of critical components and shape our strategic vision for a variety of next-gen platforms that will protect the firm and our clients from Financial Crime, focusing on code quality, automation and testability. You will have the opportunity to understand our product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within our global team. You will be responsible for mentoring and developing junior talent. Our flat structure requires and enables team members to evolve through the entire spectrum of the software life-cycle and closely collaborate with product owners, business and operations users. You must have a proficient understanding of software development concepts. A good understanding of the Cloud and Container concepts is a plus. You will also be responsible for developing easy-to-support software and liaise with our SRE team to factor in their requirements. We are looking for someone with lots of energy that enjoys engineering challenges and has a passion to deliver high quality technology solutions and can operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment.

Responsibilities And Qualifications

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Develop full stack applications with due consideration to security, design, validation and SDLC framework
• Contribute to shaping the strategic vision of our fraud screening platform involving data streaming and machine learning technologies
• Enable growth and help establish the Bengaluru team as an important global contributor
• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, engineers to define product requirements and objectives.
• Participate in system design consulting and platform management.
• Develop resilient, scalable and secure modules using cloud native services
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Update and maintain documentation for team processes, best practices and software runbooks.
• Must be passionate about technology and engineering.
• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience using a modern programming language (preferably Java)
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver complex products with multiple stakeholders
• Prior experience with working on high availability, mission critical systems
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving programming or systems engineering.
• Experience with microservice architecture (SOA)
• Experience engineering solutions with distributed tracing, Performance testing, Authentication, Authorization
• Proficiency with algorithms, data structures and software design
• Experience with UNIX operating systems internals, infrastructure as code-Terraform and networking
• Proven to work independently in a fast paced and often multi-direction work environment
• Team oriented, strong interpersonal and communication skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services or Fintech.
• Proficiency in development with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, and Terraform
• Experience with AWS services - MSK/Apache Kafka, EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM
  
  

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture

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. Were 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. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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