Asset & Wealth Management- Software Engineer- New York- Vice President

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management:

As one of the world's leading asset managers, our mission is to help our clients achieve their investment goals. To best serve our clients' diverse and evolving needs, we have built our business to be global, broad and deep across asset classes, geographies and solutions.

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is one of the world's leading asset management institutions. AWM delivers innovative investment solutions managing close to Two Trillion US Dollars on a global, multi-product platform. In addition to traditional products (e.g. Equities, Fixed Income) our product offering also includes Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Fund of Funds, Quantitative Strategies, Fundamental Equity and a Multi-Asset Pension Solutions Business. Software is engineered in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting to market and customer needs to deliver robust solutions in an ever-changing business environment. AM Data Engineering builds on top of cutting edge in-house and cloud platforms complimented with a strong focus on leveraging open source solutions.

Business Overview

The External Investing Group ("XIG") provides investors with investment and advisory solutions, across leading private equity funds, hedge fund managers, real estate managers, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. XIG manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments. With over 350 professionals across 11 offices around the world, XIG provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs' market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the world's leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over $300 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies.

XIG (External Investing Group) Technology team is looking for talented full-stack engineers to work on all technical aspects of the end to end investment lifecycle including Investment Sourcing, Investment Analysis, Execution, Portfolio Management, Trading and Risk Analytics. As a member of our team, you'll have the chance to work with other highly talented and motivated engineers and investment professionals across geographies and build next generation systems to fuel the firm's Alternative and Traditional investments.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with investment professionals to understand the full scope of the project and document the requirements.
• Propose design/architecture to the team and/or the users.
• Collaborate with global team members and stakeholders to agree upon a desirable solution
• Write robust, well tested code either working independently or in a group.
• Complete the lifecycle by deploying software to production and work with the Frontline team to put in place a support framework for the newly deployed software.
• Comfortable to pick up projects requiring full-stack development.
• Coach/mentor junior employees.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelors of Science or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience in: Java, Javascript/Typescript, Angular.
• Experience of working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Proven communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently as a self-starter and collaborate in a team environment.
• Experience in a Financial services firm is a plus, but not required.