What are the responsibilities and job description for the Controllers-Dallas-Vice President-Software Engineering position at Goldman Sachs?
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.
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
SKLLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- 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
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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Opportunity Overview CORPORATE TITLE Vice President OFFICE LOCATION(S) Dallas JOB FUNCTION Software Engineering DIVISION Controllers