Controllers-Dallas-Vice President-Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs • Dallas, TX

13h

About The Position

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.

The Controllers division is responsible for financial control and regulatory
obligations of the firm. They safeguard the assets of the firm through an
independent scrutiny of the financial information and ensure accurate reporting
to internal and external consumers. They provide critical metrics and related
analysis to the firm’s and divisions’ leadership to navigate the evolving
business strategy, including incumbent and strategic initiatives.  Controllers
play an important role in the changing landscape of the firm, including its new
business ventures and acquisitions, and ensure that these new initiatives are in
line with the regulatory expectations as well as controlled in terms of their
incorporation into the firm

Controllers engineers help ensure the firm meets all its financial control and
reporting obligations. Working in small and nimble teams, we build critical and
complex software to calculate profit and loss (P&L), measure and monitor the
firm’s capital, balance sheet and liquidity metrics, and regulatory filings
across the globe. 

OUR Impact:

Controllers Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing solutions
to manage the firm’s P&L, measure and monitor the firm’s capital, balance sheet
and liquidity metrics, and regulatory obligations. Our global agile teams (based
across Americas, EMEA and Asia) develop and manage the platforms, calculation
engines, and analytical tools that controllers, risk management, and deal-making
teams use to project, monitor and report externally to regulators for both
regular business activity and under stress scenarios.

YOUR Impact:

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop
cutting-edge software and platforms that form the core of our key business and
enable transactions to move in milliseconds. We provide real-time access to
critical deal information and process billions of data points each day to inform
firm-wide market insights and strategies. As a Vice President, you will serve as
a technical architect and organizational leader that drive these initiatives
forward. You will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical
platforms, providing strategic direction to global agile teams. 

This position provides a unique opportunity to gain subject matter expertise in
both technology and finance, and to directly engage with colleagues and senior
management from across the business, Risk, Finance, and Engineering.

Why join the team? 

AI-First Innovation: You won't just use AI; you will build the infrastructure
that enables it. You will be at the forefront of the firm’s "One Goldman
Sachs" AI transformation, building agentic workflows and LLM-integrated
platforms that automate complex financial solutions that redefine how the
Controllers division manages risk and productivity.
Cloud Technologies: You’ll be involved in building the next generation of
finance systems onto the cloud platforms, one of the key strategies for the
division in which you’ll get exposure to technologies like AWS, Snowflake,
EMR etc.
Tools & Technologies: You’ll program in Java and model data using
Alloy/Legend – a data management and data governance open source platform
that we will teach you. Other technologies in use in our space: RESTful
services, Maven/Gradle, Apache Spark, BigData, HTML 5, ReactJs, IntelliJ,
Gitlab, Jira.
Autonomy: You’ll have significant autonomy in designing and writing solutions
to help our stakeholders deliver for the firm’s clients.
Creativity: You’ll be encouraged to suggest improvements to products and to
propose ways in which we can add value for our stakeholders.
Interpersonal Communication: You’ll engage with data producers and consumers
across all areas of the business to understand their requirements and to
propose solutions tailored to their needs.
Training: Your manager will support your professional development, allowing
you time for training at work, helping you learn and grow within the
organization, and providing opportunities for increasing responsibility. 
Gain understanding of evolving regulatory framework and leverage quantitative
skills to help the firm manage capital resources.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to learn and interact with a range
of businesses and products across the firm. 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience preferably in Java or Python and competent in traditional (RDBs) and/or modern datastores (ex. Snowflake, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB)
• Proven experience architecting solutions on Cloud (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with integrating LLMs into enterprise workflows and prompt engineering
• Experience utilizing AI coding tools such as Copilot or Claude Code for development
• Strong programming and problem-solving skills
• Strong full-stack technical design, development skills and experience
• Comfortable with multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences globally
• Interest in finance

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS and Snowflake that support high-concurrency AI workloads.
• Develop high level and detailed technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans
• In an Agile environment, manage end-to-end systems development from requirements analysis to coding, testing, UAT, implementation and maintenance
• Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance 
• Understand and respond to business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
• Build strong relationships with business partners
• Identify opportunities for cross-divisional collaboration and reuse of common solutions
• Provide technical and functional guidance and leadership to junior members on a need basis
• Build and maintain key financial metric calculation models and associated infrastructure to support forward-looking business strategies and decisions in an evolving regulatory landscape
• Work closely with a wide range of stakeholders globally, including Controllers, Risk, Operations, and various business units

Benefits

• Training: Your manager will support your professional development, allowing you time for training at work, helping you learn and grow within the organization, and providing opportunities for increasing responsibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees