Engineering Project Management Vice President London

ABOUT CORE ENGINEERING & SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build improve and operate the firms most critical largescale faulttolerant platforms. SRE is responsible for the availability reliability and resilience of foundational services used across thousands of internal engineers daily spanning onprem data centres and multiple public cloud environments. SRE defines and implements firmwide standards for digital resilience observability incident response SLIs/SLOs production readiness and operational excellence.

The team provides platforms such as central logging monitoring alerting orchestration deployment automation and tools for capacity planning operational readiness incident postmortems and reliability insights. These capabilities underpin the reliability of every product shipped across Engineering.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Vice President Programme & Change Manager to lead a major crossEngineering transformation initiative within SRE. This role drives strategic change that enhances the firms reliability posture operational resilience and engineering efficiency.

You will operate at the intersection of programme leadership engineering transformation and organisational change partnering with senior stakeholders across Engineering SRE Product Owners Cloud Enablement Engineering Cloud Security Architecture and our revenuealigned engineering teams.

This leader will run a complex multiyear firmwide flagship programme ensuring SREs strategic agenda is delivered consistently transparently and with strong execution discipline.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Lead SREwide and Core Engineering strategic programmes

• Drive large crossdivisional change initiative that evolves the firms reliability posture observability strategy cloud adoption readiness incident management maturity capacity planning and production tooling ecosystem.
• Partner with SRE technical leaders to translate strategy into programme scope milestones outcomes and measurement frameworks.

Programme governance & senior stakeholder engagement

• Provide transparent reporting executive updates risk escalation and budget tracking for senior Engineering leadership.
• Run forums and ensure alignment with firmwide engineering standards and regulatory expectations.

Risk & issue management

• Identify programmelevel risks and impediments drive mitigation plans and escalate appropriately to ensure programme health.

Crossfunctional coordination & delivery execution

• Work with Product Design Engineering Site Reliability Engineering Cloud teams Security and revenue-aligned engineering to execute fronttoback change initiatives.
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams ensuring consistent delivery against roadmap commitments.

Operational excellence & transformation tooling

• Promote SRE best practices and modern programme tooling for transparency and roadmap management.
• Support test strategy development production readiness checks and postimplementation reviews.

Champion SREs mission

• Embed SRE principlesreliability observability incident learning automation and continuous improvementinto all programme plans and change frameworks.
• Ensure technology process and organisational changes align with SREs core mission of delivering resilient scalable and sustainable production systems.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WERE LOOKING FOR

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree.
• 710 years of programme management transformation leadership or largescale engineering change experience.
• Proven track record delivering crossfunctional programmes involving teams from many disciplines.
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence senior technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience managing risk budgets multiteam dependencies and programme governance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong growth mindset and drive to make a difference.
• Understanding of SRE principles production operations digital resilience observability tooling incident management and cloudnative platforms.
• Experience in large engineering organisations or technologyled transformation.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery OKRs JIRA/Confluence testing frameworks and enterprise planning tooling.
• Ability to work in fastpaced engineering environments with multiple competing priorities.

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.

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