Cloud Principal Technical Product Manager (Seattle, WA)

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs our Engineers dont 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. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers building solutions in Artificial Intelligence risk management big data mobile and more.

Cloud Platform

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs the Cloud Platform team is responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles and you will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces safety security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate faster.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative creative and intellectually curious individuals who are passionate about developing and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They will work closely with cross-functional teams and will be creative collaborators who evolve adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Responsibilities And Qualifications:

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs the Cloud Platform team enables the safe and secure use of public cloud services across the this Vice President Technical Product Manager role you will own the forward-looking strategy and product direction for the firms specialized cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform). You will work in a multi-disciplinary DevOps-oriented environment to define customer-centric platform capabilities that programmatically enforce safety security resiliency and compliance allowing engineering teams to expedite cloud adoption. You must have a proficient understanding of cloud deployment strategies software development practices and risk management with extensive experience in product management

Key Responsibilities:

• Set product vision and strategy for specialized cloud platforms by aligning client requirements and objectives to a platform North Star and socialize a roadmap of reaching this goal
• Define a clear multi-quarter roadmap of platform capabilities detailing known constrains and potential impediments.
• Create working backwards artifacts (e.g. strategy memos customer narratives problem statements success metrics) that align stakeholders on the why what and how of the platform offerings.
• Solicit and prioritize customer needs by partnering closely with engineering teams migrating workloads to public cloud and by incorporating feedback into an outcome-driven roadmap
• Partner with engineering security and relevant risk/compliance stakeholders to defineturn-key scalable compliant and performant solutions that accelerate adoption of Azure Oracle and Google cloud services
• Drive technical and architectural decision-making by facilitating cross-organization discussions
• Advocate best practices for public cloud application development and cloud-native modernization across the firm through guidance standards and repeatable platform patterns.
• Engage cloud providers (Microsoft Oracle Google) to influence and enhance their offerings to meet the firms and the finance industrys requirements.
• Define and inspect product success metrics (e.g. adoption time-to-onboard reliability/operational stability outcomes) and continuously iterate the platform offerings across the full lifecycle.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field plus 5 years of relevant professional experience in technical product management and/or cloud platform roles.
• Demonstrated ability to own a platform product roadmap end-to-end including requirements definition prioritization stakeholder alignment and lifecycle management.
• Strong technical fluency with at least one major public cloud provider and familiarity with the concepts and constraints of deploying and operating services on public cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of security resiliency and high availability principles for cloud-native services and the ability to reason about performance and process interactions in distributed systems.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills a team-oriented mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
• Ability to independently deliver on Product Roadmap Operational Stability and Execution Strategy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior product ownership of internal developer platforms or cloud enablement capabilities that enforce security isolation and multi-tenant patterns at scale.
• Awareness of regulatory requirements in Financial Services related to third party outsourcing.
• Understanding of cloud network architectures and integration with hybrid cloud networking in enterprise environments.
• Depth in one or more of Azure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Google Cloud Platform especially in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tooling including CI/CD concepts and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform Cloud Formation Bicep CDKs) sufficient to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Seattle WA United States-based position is $115000 - $250000. In addition you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

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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