Global Markets – Transaction Banking Platform Engineer - Vice President, Software Engineering

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. We change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas and solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Our engineering teams build 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. 

Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategist groups, is at the critical center of our business. Our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking. 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. 

Transaction Banking (TxB) brings innovative solutions to traditional banking activities. We are a global team of lenders, investors, risk managers, skilled marketers, web experts, infrastructure engineers and banking specialists. We provide a suite of solutions to help our customers manage their payments in innovative ways.

Transaction Banking

TxB aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for GS and other financial institutions. TxB combines the strength and heritage of a 150-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Through the use of 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:

The Cloud Platform Engineering team is a global team responsible for engineering public cloud solutions to support our Payment Orchestration and Execution Platform. Working in close partnership with application teams building the new system, the team is responsible for identifying and securing the public cloud services required, automating their provisioning, and building a highly resilient and scalable infrastructure which will differentiate our offering from the competition.

The Role:

We are seeking highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious leaders who are passionate about building and operating cutting-edge cloud capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic and highly demanding environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Help to define, communicate and promote cloud engineering best practices for public cloud application deployment across the department.
• Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to present, persuade and influence peers, vendors and executives.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships across a multitude of stakeholders in a fast paced, multi-directional work environment.
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply expertise to drive complex, technical and highly commercial solutions.
• Experience supporting complex production application environments.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience working with cloud services in multi-region deployments.
• Experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment.
• Experience meeting demands for high availability and scale.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as the interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams.
• Ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Team Lead experience managing teams of 10 or more engineers while retaining hands-on expertise with a diverse set of cloud services.
• Experience working in a Linux environment, including system engineering, high availability design, performance analysis, network troubleshooting.
• Hands on experience in Amazon web services, such as Cloudwatch, EC2, ECS, IAM and KMS.
• Hands on experience with API Gateways (Kong) and messaging (Kafka).
• Hands on experience with RDS Aurora or DynamoDB.
• Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience using CICD (preferably Gitlab)