The Core-Bengaluru-Vice President-Software Engineering
Goldman Sachs · Posted Nov 6
Investment banking, securities, asset management, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Core Engineering builds and operates platforms, applications, data solutions, models, and analytics for the firm’s Risk, Controllers, Compliance, Corporate Treasury, and Human Capital Management functions. Metrics & Analytics Platforms manages the measurement and management of the firm’s risk, capital, and liquidity, with Portfolio Risk Platforms providing services for Market Risk, Counterparty & Lending Risk, Interest Rate Risk, and Price Verification. This Vice President/Lead Engineer role will design, engineer, and maintain high-performance risk calculation engines and risk management workflows, lead AI-driven and cloud-first architecture, and provide hands-on technical leadership.
What you will do
- Build Scalable Metrics Engines: Architect and optimize high-throughput, reliable data and calculation processes that generate timely and accurate lending metrics to actively manage and mitigate the firm’s risk exposures.
- Build Complex Risk Workflows: Engineer highly performant, resilient, and scalable systems that empower risk managers to seamlessly evaluate market scenarios, counterparties, assign credit ratings, and define risk appetites.
- Architect the Future: Lead the blueprint and execution of our next-generation architecture with an AI-driven, cloud-first mindset—ensuring maximum resiliency, scalability, and alignment with the firm’s long-term strategic growth.
- Provide Hands-On Technical Leadership: Act as a hands-on technical leader, building deep credibility and trust across regional and global engineering teams while actively unblocking complex platform uplifts and ongoing technical challenges.
- Drive Engineering Excellence & Mentorship: Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, and mentor the next generation of engineering talent to help them reach their full potential.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with quantitative engineers, technical leaders across the broader engineering organization, and product managers to define and execute our next-generation architecture.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience building and scaling enterprise-level, business-critical systems.
- Proven experience providing technical leadership across global development teams, including driving modern, scalable SDLC practices.
- Deep expertise in cloud architectural design, with a strong preference for AWS and multi-region high-availability patterns.
- Demonstrated experience defining, designing, and delivering AI-enabled products, platforms, or automated solutions.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale platform modernization, legacy transformation, or strategic change initiatives across cross-functional teams and business units.
- Exceptional analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- A strong appetite and openness to dive into proprietary systems, understand their inner workings, and strategically uplift them.
- Outstanding leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior experience in the financial services industry, with deep domain knowledge in Risk, or Risk Engineering systems.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services across investment banking, securities, investment management, and consumer banking to a diverse client base. Established in 1869 and headquartered in New York City, the firm serves corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide.
- Industry
- Investment Banking
- Company size
- 47400+ employees
- Founded
- 1869
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
President and Chief Operating Officer
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