Software Engineer - Vice President - Compliance Engineering

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centres around the world.

DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW

The Goldman Sachs Compliance Division prevents, detects and mitigates regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, and helps to strengthen the firm's culture of compliance. As an independent control function and part of the firm's second line of defense, Compliance:
• Assesses the firm's compliance, regulatory and reputational risk
• Monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations
• Designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training
• Conducts independent testing
• Leads the firm's response to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries
Compliance Engineering empowers these activities by building and operating a suite of software platforms and applications. We are a team of more than 300 engineers and scientists who work on the most complex, mission-critical problems. We have access to the latest technology and to massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. We leverage modern frameworks to build responsive and intuitive UX/UI and Big Data applications, incorporating cutting-edge AI and efficient processes to drive them.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Big Data Engineer, you will:
• Design, develop and maintain data pipelines and anomaly detection models which process huge volumes of trading and trade related data.
• Be instrumental in
o Providing technical direction to leverage the most relevant technologies for the different business use cases.
o Work towards adapting of the most optimal technologies as well as improving the adoption of the latest technologies across engineering teams.
o Driving Quality: implementing processes and procedures to maximize the overall quality of software
o Execution: Defining key milestones, resourcing & timelines
• Develop an understanding of evolving regulatory frameworks & leverage cutting edge technologies to manage firm regulatory and reputational risk
• Be a technical lead, develop and drive the institutionalization of best practices around coding, testing – scalability, stability and quality, code reviews and operational readiness across the teams
• Collaboration with Local & Global teams allowing for technical discussions, decision making, driving standard code architecture and identifying potential blockers at an early stage
• Have an opportunity to work on a broad range of problems, including negotiating data contracts and capturing data quality metrics

TECHNICAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

MBA or Bachelor/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field of study.
• 7+ years’ experience in software development
• Experience in developing and designing end-to-end solutions to enterprise standards including automated testing and SDLC.
• Ability (and tenacity) to clearly express ideas and arguments in meetings and on paper.
• Experience with one or more of ; Java, Spark, Hadoop, Flink, MapReduce, HBase, JSON, Protobuf, Presto, Elastic Search, Kafka, Kubernetes
• Expertise in Java or any other Object-Oriented Language, as well as proficiency

DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW The Goldman Sachs Compliance Division prevents, detects and mitigates regulatory and reputational risk across the firm, and helps to strengthen the firm's culture of compliance. As an independent control function and part of the firm's second line of defense, Compliance: • Assesses the firm's compliance, regulatory and reputational risk • Monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations • Designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training • Conducts independent testing • Leads the firm's response to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries