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Compliance, Surveillance & Models-Software Engineering, Vice President, Dallas location_on Dallas, TX, United States

Opportunity Overview

Corporate Title: Vice President

Office Location(s): Dallas

Job Function: Software Engineering

Division: Compliance Division

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• partner globally with sponsors, users and engineering colleagues across multiple divisions to create end-to-end solutions
• learn from experts
• leverage various technologies depending on the team including Java, Python, PySpark, SQL, Hadoop, Snowflake, Iceberg, Kafka, Kubernetes
• apply analytical and functional skills to design surveillance processes to identify risks
• be able to innovate and incubate new ideas
• have an opportunity to work on a broad range of problems, often dealing with large data sets, including real‑time processing, messaging, workflow and UI/UX
• be involved in the full life cycle; defining, designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software across our products

In addition, you will:

• Effectively use AI‑assisted software development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Devin, Claude Code, or equivalent) to improve developer productivity and reduce development cycle time
• Apply AI tools to accelerate:
  • code generation and refactoring
  • test creation and coverage improvement
  • debugging, root‑cause analysis, and performance optimization
• Use AI‑assisted reasoning to understand complex codebases, rapidly prototype solutions, and improve code quality while maintaining strong engineering standards
• Partner with peers and reviewers to validate, harden, and productionize AI‑generated outputs , ensuring correctness, security, maintainability, and regulatory compliance
• Identify opportunities where AI tooling can reduce manual effort, minimize rework, and support faster, higher‑quality delivery to production

QUALIFICATIONS

Attribute-based qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field
• 5+ years professional software development experience
• Expertise in Java and/or Python development
• Experience in automated testing and SDLC concepts
• The ability (and tenacity) to clearly express ideas and arguments in meetings and on paper

Desired and differentiating experience includes:

• Demonstrated experience or a strong interest in leveraging AI‑assisted developer tools to enhance engineering productivity and accelerate software delivery
• Ability to critically evaluate AI‑generated outputs and enhance them to production‑grade quality
• Proven ability to critically evaluate AI‑generated outputs and refine them to meet production‑grade standards of quality, reliability, and maintainability
• Hands‑on proficiency with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot , Claude Code , and Devin to expedite code authoring, refactoring, and debugging across all phases of the SDLC
• Effective utilization of AI pair‑programming tools to generate boilerplate code, unit tests, and technical documentation, enabling greater focus on architectural design and complex problem‑solving
• Application of established prompt engineering best practices to elicit high‑quality, context‑aware code recommendations and reduce iteration cycles during development
• Practical integration of autonomous AI agents (e.g., Devin) for routine engineering tasks, including bug triage, dependency upgrades, and minor feature implementations, thereby freeing engineering bandwidth for higher‑impact initiatives
• Adoption of AI‑driven code review tools to proactively identify defects, security vulnerabilities, and performance bottlenecks earlier in the development cycle, strengthening overall quality gates
• Experience with:
  • API design and micro‑services architecture, such as to create interconnected services
  • Cloud‑based data platforms, such as Snowflake
  • Apache Spark and/or Hadoop
  • Data Lake or Lakehouse solutions
  • Relational databases
  • Knowledge of the financial industry and compliance or risk functions
  • Influencing and collaborating with stakeholders

Equal Opportunity Employer

Goldman Sachs is an equal‑to‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We are committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:

Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance: 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.

Vacation: 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.

Financial Wellness & Retirement: 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.

Health Services: 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.

Fitness: 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).

Child Care & Family Care: 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.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs: Read more about the full suite of class‑leading benefits our firm has to offer.