Goldman Sachs Risk-New York-Associate-Software Engineering 

United States, New York, New York 

503894822

Responsibilities

• Key Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk specialists
• Performance tune applications to ensure the accuracy and timely delivery of the risk metrics.
• Upgrade existing applications, including vendor software, to adhere to emerging firm standards for compute, systems software, and security standards.
• Perform statistical analyses to identify trends and exceptions related Market Risk metrics/Timeliness.
• 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. Work with vendor software like Axiom for external regulatory reporting
• Utilize web development technologies used within the firm to facilitate application development for front end UI used for risk management actions
• Develop data models for sourcing input data and publishing risk metric calculation outputs to databases like Sybase IQ and distributed HDFS systems.
• Interact with business users for level two support queries, as needed.
• Design and support batch processes using scheduling infrastructure for calculation and distributing data to other systems.
• Mentor junior technical team members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review and production migrations.
• Interact with business users for level three support queries, as needed.

Requirements

• Previous experience in Market, Liquidity or Credit risk with Market risk preferred.
• Three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
• A good sense of curiosity and the ability to deconstruct large problems into small, actionable plans.
• A strong understanding of common application architectures (e.g. REST, single page web applications, distributed computing).
• Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.
• Design patterns, Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming and Best practices of coding.
• An understanding of compute resources and the ability to interpret performance metrics (e.g. CPU, memory, threads, file handles).
• Knowledge of Process Scheduler like Apache Airflow
• 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

Strong Pluses

• Previous experience in Goldman technologies.
• Knowledge of authentication and entitlement schemes.
• Knowledge of Process scheduling , public cloud /AWS