Asset & Wealth Management-Richardson-Vice President-Data Engineer Richardson · · Vice President

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLE: Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S): Richardson
JOB FUNCTION: Technology Products
DIVISION: Asset & Wealth Management

Who We Are
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. 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.

In Private Wealth Management, we help our clients pursue their wealth management goals through careful advice & astute investment management. PWM Engineering plays a pivotal role in building the tools and applications our business needs to effectively manage and support our client’s diverse requirements. We support the entire user experience starting with onboarding through to trading, reporting, as well as providing clients access to their portfolios online via native iOS and Android apps. We also build and support numerous applications for our Business and Operations users to help them effectively manage risk and provide the best white-glove service possible to our clients.

Your Impact
This person will be:

• Responsible for expanding and optimizing our cloud based data pipeline architecture.
• Building robust data pipelines and reporting tools.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data processing & software engineering and can build high-quality, scalable data oriented products.
• Experience on distributed data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, EMR, etc.) for building efficient, large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong Software Engineering experience with in-depth understanding of Python, Scala, Java or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, modeling and infrastructure.
• Experience with building workflows (ETL pipelines).
• Experience with SQL and optimizing queries.
• Problem solver with attention to detail who can see complex problems in the data space through end to end.
• Willingness to work in a fast paced environment.
• MS/BS in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building scalable applications on the Cloud (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, etc.).
• Experience building stream-processing applications (Spark streaming, Apache-Flink, Kafka, etc.).

Benefits at Goldman Sachs
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year. We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities. We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices. To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount). We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.