Asset & Wealth Management Strategist Associate Dallas

Asset Management

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential while you discover your own. As part of one of the worlds leading asset managers you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft our clients and building sustainable success. Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally and invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity growth equity private credit real estate infrastructure hedge funds and sustainability. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies customized partnerships and open-architecture programs. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the worlds leading institutions financial advisors and individuals. Goldman Sachs has over $2.8 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of December 31 2023.

What We Do

Within Asset Management Strategists (also known as Strats) play important roles in research valuation portfolio construction and risk management analytics. A Strategist will apply quantitative and analytical methods to come up with solutions that are accurate robust and scalable. Strats are innovators and problem-solvers building novel and creative solutions for manager selection portfolio construction and risk management. You will develop advanced computational models architectures and applications to meet the challenges of a rapidly growing and evolving business.

We build the core analytics and modeling platforms used by Portfolio Strategy Portfolio Management and Investment teams to make data driven investment and fund management work sits at the intersection of software engineering data and finance turning complex financial models and datasets into reliable production-grade systems directly used by the business.

Job Duties

• Design build and own production-grade backend systems and APIs that support portfolio analysis fund modeling performance attribution and scenario analytics for Portfolio Strategy and Portfolio Management teams.
• Architect and implement scalable services and data pipelines that power quantitative analytics for investment and liquidity decision-support tools.
• Translate complex business and financial requirements into robust testable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Build and maintain data-intensive components ensuring data quality performance and reliability across the platform.
• Collaborate with product partners and frontend designers to expose analytics through intuitive user interfaces when needed while maintaining a back-end focus.
• Write high-quality well-tested code contribute to code and design reviews and take ownership of features from concept through production.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or related technical discipline.
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production software systems using Git and standard SDLC workflow.
• Excellent programming and software design skills in at least one object-orientated language such as Java Kotlin C or Python.
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures with experience applying them to solve real-world engineering problems.
• Ability to take ownership of problems work effectively in a team and drive tasks to completion in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Willingness and ability to learn financial concepts and work with finance-related data and business logic; prior finance experience is not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Financial Engineering or related technical field.
• Experience with portfolio or financial modeling including developing evaluating and interpreting complex analytical models.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear actionable insights for business stakeholders.
• Experience building and shipping software in a commercial or production environment with real users.
• Exposure to data stores and query languages such as SQL and MongoDB.
• Workingknowledge of JavaScript or Typescript and at least one modern frontend framework (e.g. React or Angular).

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs we commit our people capital and ideas to help our clients shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869 we are a leading global investment banking securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. Were committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture benefits and people at are committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 2023. All rights reserved.

Goldman Sachs is an equal 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.