Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham

What We Do

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.

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. Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor‑led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra‑high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading‑edge technology, data and design.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

We are looking for a skilled and motivated software engineer to design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient system and infrastructure for our billing platform. Propose, design, and implement software solutions to enhance our services and enable new business functions. Perform hands‑on development; participate in architecture and design discussions, design reviews. Work closely with other engineering teams across the firm to develop data feeds, APIs, processing pipelines. Work closely with the global user group to support and enhance the applications to meet new requirements. Understand the business workflows to assist in analysing and converting business requirements into technical specifications. Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand data needs, and transform them into actionable insights that drive business decisions. Develop and maintain scalable and efficient dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that effectively present complex data in a user‑friendly manner. Provide technical support and troubleshooting data pipelines and transformations, resolving issues and ensuring system availability. Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and business intelligence and data analytics best practices.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands‑on software development experience.
• Solid understanding of object‑oriented skills and frameworks.
• Experience with producing scalable software designs.
• Experience in Spring, REST services, JMS, Hibernate/JPA, JSON is required.
• Experience working with databases like Sybase or MongoDB.
• Experience with designing/delivering messaging‑based solutions (e.g. Kafka).
• Fast learner who can pick up existing applications (functionally & technically).
• Excellent problem‑solving abilities and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and meet project deadlines.
• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and innovation.
• Strong communication skills (in person, phone, and email).
• Prior experience with people management.
• Prior experience leading & delivering projects independently and working in global project team setup.
• Ability to work on multiple programs.
• Interest in finance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial industry or a related field.
• Familiarity with cloud‑based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, GBQ).
• Familiarity with cloud‑based data pipeline services (e.g AWS Glue) or distributed processing frameworks like Apache Spark.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.