Risk-Salt Lake City-Associate-Software Engineering

About the role

To ensure uncompromising accuracy and timeliness in the delivery of critical risk metrics that support Goldman Sachs’ decision making process, our data platform is continuously growing and evolving. Capital 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 business transaction we engage in.

Responsibilities

• Apply your prior experience and expertise of working in credit risk domain at a large bank or financial institution, and ramp up very quickly to work with the global team.
• Perform performance tuning of applications to improve memory and CPU utilization.
• Perform statistical analyses to identify trends and exceptions related 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 actions.
• Develop 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.

Requirements

We are looking for a Senior Developer with:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 3-5 years’ experience working with risk technology teams in a large investment or retail bank, or a comparable financial institution.
• Experience in credit risk management functions and processes, knowledge of major regulatory deliverables for credit risk and expertise in related technology is required.
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts.
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team.
• Comfortable with working with multiple programming languages, including learning proprietary software coding when required.
• Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.
• Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.
• Should be ready to work in GS proprietary technology like Slang/SECDB.
• An 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 entire life cycle of the project from start to end.

Qualifications

Qualifications include:

• Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.
• Should be ready to work in GS proprietary technology like Slang/SECDB.
• An 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 entire life cycle of the project from start to end.

Skills

• Scala
• Java
• Python
• Spark
• Linux and shell scripting
• TDD (JUnit)
• build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant)

Benefits

Goldman Sachs offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Schedule

Full-time position.

Company Information

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.