Senior Software VP Lead

Asset & Wealth Management Division

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

In Private Wealth Management, we help our clients pursue their wealth management goals through careful advice & astute investment management. We work closely with high-net-worth individuals, families and select foundations and endowments to develop wealth and investment management strategies. We then identify investment opportunities to help them reach their objectives. We complement these services with robust execution capabilities and attentive client service. 

PWM Client Communications Platform team, part of PWM Technology, is responsible for building a strategic platform to deliver communications (E.g. - Statements, Tax Documents, etc) to clients through various channels. Team is on a mission to execute a multi-year strategy to build the platform be used for new regulatory & business communications in addition to migrate existing communications into the new platform. 

Platform comprises of scalable micro-services to fulfill various steps in journey of sending communications to clients using even driven frameworks. Platform enables others technology applications to integrate with it to send their communications. Business users can create communications using rich user interface. Platform should be capable of managing large volumes of communication requests (in order of multi millions) with varying time sensitivity.  using priority across multiple tenants via queue/event-based frameworks. 

Our team of engineers builds solutions to most complex problems and has the opportunity to work with business & operations as stakeholders. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with various stakeholders, including Architects, Senior leaders & Business sponsors to develop innovative solutions addressing the current challenges.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

We are seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge software. Contribute to engineering leadership in architecting the platform components.

• Lead a technical team of 4+ members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review and production migrations.
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical & business audiences and working globally
• Interact with business users for resolving issues with applications.
• Play a key role in influencing platform architecture and drive adoption of modern technology stack (Kubernetes, Prometheus, ...)
• Produce scalable and extensible designs
• Act as hands developer in the role of architect to build and ship new features
• Guide junior resources technically
• Comfortable with multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a cross regional teams

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Java & related frameworks
• 5+ years of experience working on NoSQL databases (MongoDB preferred)
• 5+ years of experience producing scalable software designs.
• 5+ years of experience in Spring.
• Strong sense of innovation and ownership to drive adoption new technology frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience designing and deploying micro services using REST.
• Experience working on observability & monitoring.
• Experience working on adopting Kubernetes. 
• Experience in Automated Testing frameworks
• Experience in Messaging Frameworks (Kafka, ...)

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on large scale systems with event driven architectures.
• Experience in Financial Services/Industry

About Goldman Sachs

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. 

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