Core Data Platform Software Engineering-Associate-Bengaluru

Data plays a critical role in every facet of the Goldman Sachs business. The Data Engineering group is at the core of that offering focusing on providing the platform processes and governance for enabling the availability of clean organized and impactful data to scale streamline and empower our core businesses.

Within Data Engineering we focus on offering a comprehensive data platform Legend which we have made available as an open-source product. Legend includes a full data modeling environment as well as the execution of data access and controls and a vast set of value-add products which allow our business users to operate more efficiently.

Leveraging our own Legend offering our engineers build efficient data solutions that source curate and distribute critical data to our businesses including financial product pricing transaction and client reference data. Our engineers collaborate closely with the business to design and curate business-specific data models and to transform and distribute data for optimal storage and retrieval.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers building solutions in risk management big data mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

As aFull-stack Software Engineeron the Data Engineering team you will be responsible for helping improve the Legend data platform our curated data offerings and how the business uses data. We tackle some of the most complex engineering problems across distributed software development optimizing data access and delivery enabling core access controls via well-defined security paradigms building UIs to enable data visualization using machine learning to curate data or engaging with businesses to ensure their data needs are met and we react quickly to new demands by rapidly evolving our data solutions.

How You Will Fulfill York Potential

• Design & develop modern data management tools to curate our most important data sets models and processes while identifying areas for process automation and further efficiencies
• Contribute to an open-source technology - adoption of cloud technology for data processing and warehousing
• Engage with data consumers and producers in order to design appropriate models to suit enable the business

Relevant Technologies: Java Python AWS React

Basic Qualifications

• A Bachelor or Master degree in a computational field (Computer Science Applied Mathematics Engineering or in a related quantitative discipline)
• 2-7 years of relevant work experience in a team-focused environment
• 2-7 years of experience in distributed system design
• 2-7 years of experience using Java Python and/or React
• 2-7 years of experience or interest in functional programming languages
• Strong object-oriented design and programming skills and experience in OO languages (Java)
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure or GCP) and infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation or ARM templates).
• Proven experience applying domain driven design to build complex business applications
• Deep understanding of multidimensionality of data data curation and data quality such as traceability security performance latency and correctness across supply and demand processes
• In-depth knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases including database design
• Expertise in data warehousing concepts (e.g. star schema entitlement implementations SQL v/s NoSQL modeling milestoning indexing partitioning)
• Experience in REST and/or GraphQL
• Experience in creating Spark jobs for data transformation and aggregation
• Comfort with Agile operating models (practical experience of Scrum / Kanban)
• General knowledge of business processes data flows and the quantitative models that generate or consume data
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to work with subject matter experts to extract critical business concepts
• Independent thinker willing to engage challenge or learn
• Ability to stay commercially focused and to always push for quantifiable commercial impact
• Strong work ethic a sense of ownership and urgency
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Establish trusted partnerships with key contacts and users across business and engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services industry experience
• Experience with Pure/Legend
• Working knowledge of open-source tools such as AWS lambda Prometheus