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 is 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 entire life cycle of the project from start to end

What You'll Be Doing

• 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
• Acquiring high-quality data, storing it, performing risk computations in a limited amount of time using distributed computing
• Making data available to enable actionable risk insights through analytical and responsive user interfaces

Perks and Benefits