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

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

Asset and Wealth Management (AWM)

Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $3 trillion in assets under supervision. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. We are:

• Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
• Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios
• Thought leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions
• Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goal

Who We Look For

We are seeking a high-caliber, hands-on Vice President with a proven history of delivery to lead our regional team in Dallas. In this role, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of our next-generation, end-to-end systematic investment platforms whilst supporting the continued growth of the QIS (Quantitative Investment Strategies) business.

The successful candidate will oversee regional engineering operations in Dallas and serve as a key stakeholder within the QIS Global Engineering Leadership Team.

As a Vice President in the QIS Engineering team, you will be working in a close-knit environment with Portfolio Managers, Research Analysts and Technologists to design and develop platforms that drive the QIS business, spanning new product capabilities, quantitative research, model generation, portfolio construction and monitoring.

The role also provides an opportunity to participate in all phases of a project life cycle and work with extremely bright and motivated individuals, who focus on development and strive for continuous process improvement. In specific the candidate will

• Participate in design, build out, and maintenance of distributed, multi-region, scalable and resilient platforms/systems used for day-to-day Portfolio Management and Construction.
• Interact with other engineering teams to understand technology offerings and how they can be applied and leveraged as part of our solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering or related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Excellent object oriented or functional analysis and design skills.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems and apply analysis to make data driven decisions.
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a global team.
• Can apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development.

Expert knowledge in one or more of

• Programming in a complied language such as java, or python and experience with concurrency and memory management.
• Databases both relational and NoSQL such as MongoDB, Single Store, Sybase ASE.
• Cloud experience will be an added advantage

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge or interest in trading technologies in the front-office of a trading organization
• Experience operating within the front-office of a trading organization
• B.S. or M.S. computer science or related field.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Dallas
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management