Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineering Lead - Vice President - Birmingham

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible.  Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas.  Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.  Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering, which is comprised of our Engineering Division and global strategist groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions.  Want to push the limit of digital possibilities?  Start here.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Asset & Wealth Management Engineering 

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking, and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data, and design

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and successfully onboard a new local team of engineers in Birmingham. Act as a highly skilled hybrid senior technical lead and people manager. Provide hands-on technical direction, conduct code reviews, and unblock the local team while personally driving key billing initiatives from conception to production.

Platform Ownership: Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient system and infrastructure for our billing platform participating in architecture design discussions and reviews to enhance our services, enable new business functions and uplift our existing billing stack to the cloud. Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, cloud, and AI best practices.

Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business needs, and transform them into actionable insights that drive business decisions. Work closely with other engineering teams across the firm to develop data feeds, APIs, processing pipelines and with the global user group to support and enhance the applications to meet new requirements. Understand the business workflows to assist in analyzing and converting business requirements into technical specifications. 

Local Advocacy: Act as the technical face of the team in the Birmingham office, contributing to the local engineering community and internal engineering forums.

Qualifications: 

Technical Requirements

•              Experience: 10+ years in Software Engineering, with at least 2+ years in a formal leadership or management role.

•              Design and Development: Expertise in producing scalable software solutions involving Spring, REST services, JMS, Hibernate/JPA and JSONs. Experience working with databases like Sybase or MongoDB and messaging frameworks like Kafka.

•              Cloud Expertise: Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native architectures, cloud migration patterns, and cloud services (e.g., AWS)

•              AI Readiness: Understand AI tooling to use it for faster application development and provide guidance to the team on AI best practices with respect to usage and data security.

Leadership & Soft Skills

•              Mentorship: Demonstrate ability to manage new employees, with specific experience coaching junior engineers, helping them build confidence in a complex technical environment.

•              Communication: Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in the wealth management business.

•              Problem Solving: A "builder" mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

•              Ownership: Prior experience leading & delivering projects independently and working in global project team setup.