Risk Division Software Engineer Vice President London London United Kingdom Vice President
Risk Division
- Software Engineer
- Vice President
- LondonLocation: London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOpportunity OverviewCorporate Title: Vice PresidentOffice Location(s): LondonJob Function: Software EngineeringDivision: Risk DivisionThe Risk Business identifies, monitors, evaluates, and manages the firms financial and non-financial risks in support of the firms Risk Appetite Statement and the firms strategic plan.
Operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and utilizing the best-in-class risk tools and frameworks, Risk teams are analytically curious, have an aptitude to challenge, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.OverviewTo ensure uncompromising accuracy and timeliness in the delivery of the risk metrics, our platform is continuously growing and evolving.
Risk Engineering combines the principles of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Finance to produce large scale, computationally intensive calculations of risk Goldman Sachs faces with each transaction we engage in.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 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 (Java, Cloud computing, HDFS, Spark, S3, ReactJS, Sybase IQ among many others).
A glimpse of the interesting problems that we engineer solutions for include acquiring high-quality data, storing it, performing risk computations in a limited amount of time using distributed computing, and making data available to enable actionable risk insights through analytical and responsive user interfaces.WHAT WE LOOK FORSenior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managersPerformance tune applications to improve memory and CPU utilization.Perform statistical analyses to identify trends and exceptions related to Market Risk metrics.Build internal and external reporting for the output of risk metric calculation using data extraction tools, such as SQL, and data visualization tools, such as Tableau.Utilize web development technologies to facilitate application development for front-end UI used for risk management actionsDevelop software for calculations using databases like Snowflake, Sybase IQ, and distributed HDFS systems.Interact with business users for resolving issues with applications.Design and support batch processes using scheduling infrastructure for calculation and distributing data to other systems.Oversee junior technical team members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review, and production migrations.Skills And ExperienceBachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline7+ years of experience working in a risk technology team in another bank or financial institution.
Experience in market risk technology is a plus.Experience with one or more major relational/object databases.Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, and core programming conceptsComfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders, and working as part of a teamComfortable with working with multiple languagesTechnologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.Open to working in GS proprietary technology like Slang/SECDBAn understanding of compute resources and the ability to interpret performance metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, threads, file handles).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 the entire life cycle of the project from start to end.About Goldman SachsAt Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow.
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