Meet Our Team: The Core Shared Services (Earlier referred as CFOSS) was created with the objective to centralize related platforms, services, and expertise required by multiple The Core (Earlier referred as CF&O) divisions to realize efficiencies and uniform solutions.
The team’s core priorities include:
- Improving workflow efficiencies and governance through the systemization and automation of financial metrics and associated limits.
- Accelerating the adoption of Cloud and Core Engineering solutions.
- Establishing positions data quality, accountability and lineage.
- Developing unified data models across assessment platforms and ensure they meet regulatory and internal Risk & Compliance management requirements.
- Support the development of analytic calculations and data transformations.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
This VP Software Engineer role is for a professional who is passionate about bringing business impact through digital transformation and deployment of scalable and reliable software solutions.
The Core divisions have a large footprint of software applications to ensure the firm complies with the controls set forth in its policies and risk appetite, meet its regulatory obligations, and to protect the firm’s reputation. To meet the demand of the business, drive by the size and complexity of the entire firm, the candidate will have the mandate to continuously increase the level of automation and to modernize and consolidate our software stacks. In addition, data is at the center of what we do. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experiences in and a passion for solving critical problems related to data quality, warehousing, and analytics.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL (RESPONSIBILITIES)
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance
- Build strong relationships with business partners
- Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
- Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
- Define and govern scalable, secure, and cost-optimized architecture
- Leverage AI tools, i.e Devin, Claude etc to improve development efficiency and innovation
- Ensure strong cloud governance including security, compliance, and cost control
- Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance
- Exploring new and emerging technologies as needed by the project.
- Drive program execution, manage risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations
- Collaborate with business leaders to align technology with strategic goals
SKILLS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- 10+ years of relevant experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, core programming concepts and experiences with continuous delivery and deployment, preferably 2+ years of experience with AWS services.
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and system design
- Strong problem solver, organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment with delivery focus as part of a global team
- Exposure to AI/ML tools and modern engineering practices preferred
- Excellent communicator who is comfortable engaging stakeholders, both verbally and written
- Preferably experienced in managing small to mid-size teams
- Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language (e.g. Java, C++, python)
- Full Stack experience with industry standard frameworks and tools (e.g. React, SpringBoot, DropWizard, Maven, Web/RESTful service development)
- Knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
- 10+ years of relevant software development experience
- 2+ years of experience with AWS services
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and system design
- Strong programming experience in at least one language (Java, C++, Python)
- Full stack experience with frameworks and tools (React, SpringBoot, DropWizard, Maven) and Web/RESTful service development
- Knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder engagement
- Experience managing small to mid-size teams
- Exposure to AI/ML tools and modern engineering practices
Goldman Sachs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Goldman Sachs and has not been reviewed or approved by Goldman Sachs.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life and accident insurance, with multiple plan options and most premiums subsidized; coverage often starts on day one. Wellness resources, on-site health centers in some locations, and EAP access reinforce the depth of health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Family care includes on-site childcare in some offices, expectant parent resources, and transitional programs for returning parents. Feedback suggests parental leave is very generous, with reports of around 20 weeks paid leave and stipends for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility-related services.
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Retirement Support — The firm provides a 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions and broad financial education to help employees plan for retirement. Resources also support saving for education and preparing for unexpected events.
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What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, we believe progress is everyone’s business. That’s why we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices in all major financial centers around the world. More about our company can be found at www.goldmansachs.com





