Risk Division - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham

Requirements

• Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managers
• Performance tune 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 7+ experience in working risk technology team in another bank, financial institution. Experience in market risk technology is a plus.
• Experience with one or more major relational/object databases.
• 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 languages.
• Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant).
• Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.
• Open to working 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 the entire life cycle of the project from start to end.

What You'll Be Doing

• Impact one or more aspects of risk management.
• Work with a team of talented engineers to drive the build & adoption of common tools, platforms, and applications.
• Build solutions that are offered as a software product or as a hosted service.
• Partner with business areas and other technology teams to deliver high profile projects.
• Engineer solutions for acquiring high-quality data, storing it, performing risk computations, and making data available for actionable risk insights.

Nice to Haves

• Experience in market risk technology.

Perks and Benefits

• Fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Firmwide networks.
• Benefits, wellness, and personal finance offerings.
• Mindfulness programs.
• Reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities.