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THE ROLE:

GS Innovation Center is a platform and program to accelerate the use of external cloud technologies and reduce the time-to-decision for new vendor solutions. This will allow Engineering and Markets Teams to evaluate solutions on their ability to meet the business and technology needs of Goldman Sachs first, without incurring the up-front legal, security, and technology complexities inherent to operating within a regulated financial institution. As the GS Innovation Center Cloud Platform Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely for the GS Innovation Center. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles for the firm, and you will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster. You are expected to contribute to the vision, understand our customers' needs, business goals, product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within the team. We expect the successful candidate to be passionate about software engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development, security and the mechanisms to design safe, resilient and highly-available cloud native services.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Understand and validate the GS Innovation Center environment feature requirements with the GS Innovation Center program management team and vendor for each specific POC (integration requirements, data requirements, etc.)
  • GS Innovation Center technical lead who will oversee cloud environment implementation and provide on-going input and guidance
  • Ensure GS Innovation Center environments adhere to GS risk and compliance guidelines for lab environment
  • Work with partner to open firewalls for accessing the partner provided cloud desktop from the GS NDS
  • Design, develop and manage services in public cloud for the GS Innovation Center
  • Architect safe, resilient and highly-available distributed services that meet the GS Innovation Center requirements
  • Write technical specifications, work with several teams and manage technical dependencies and drive design meetings with various stakeholders for consensus
  • Collaborate with business software engineering teams on solving business problems via the architecture and engineering of cloud native applications
  • Engage with the larger Core Engineering organization to create and deliver usable, safe cloud native engineering patterns with associated guardrails and operational practices for the GS Innovation Center
  • Partner with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure to shape the future of public cloud services for finance industry

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 3 or more years of experience designing and developing distributed applications in a collaborative global team
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively and possessing the interpersonal skills required to collaborate with colleagues across diverse technology teams
  • Proficiency in designing, developing and testing enterprise level software applications with a focus on RESTful APIs.
  • Ability to understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Strong programming skills in Java.
  • Scripting skills using Python, Bash, or similar language
  • Understanding or experience working with technologies such as AWS (or other Public Cloud), Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong analytical, reporting and presentation skills
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