WHO WE ARE
Goldman Sachs is leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a
wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial
institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals.
Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New
York and maintains offices in London, Bangalore, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centres
around the world.
We are committed to growing our distinctive Culture and holding to our core values which always place our client's
interests first. These values are reflected in our Business Principles, which emphasise integrity, commitment to
excellence, innovation and teamwork.
BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW
Enterprise Technology Operations (ETO) is a Business Unit within Core Engineering focused on running
scalable production management services with a mandate of operational excellence and operational risk reduction
achieved through large scale automation, best-in-class engineering, and application of data science and machine
learning. The Production Runtime Experience (PRX) team in ETO applies software engineering and machine
learning to production management services, processes, and activities to streamline monitoring, alerting,
automation, and incident management. The team also builds and operates products for order management,
disaster recovery testing, and developer onboarding.
TEAM OVERVIEW
ETO's Production Runtime Experience team uses big data processing, machine learning, real-time streaming
analytics and simplified visualization/interaction to give computer systems the ability to learn and automate many of
the tasks that humans would normally perform manually to run the bank’s systems. This is achieved through
sophisticated engineering; autonomics and machine learning that statistically and inductively help understand the
behaviour of these complex systems.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILIITES
An individual in this role is responsible for design, development, deployment and support of products and platforms
that leverage Java based technologies and enable large scale event processing in engineering products in ETO.
The individual will engage in both server side as well as front-end development as may be required to achieve the
desired outcomes. Specific responsibilities include:
Design component as well as integration architecture for large scale web applications
Develop, test and support features for globally deployed web apps.
Follow best practices throughout the project lifecycle
Participate in team-wide design and code reviews.
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. It is not intended to be a complete list of assigned duties but to describe a
position level. The role shall be performed within a professional office environment. Goldman Sachs has health and safety polices that are available for all workers upon request. There are no
specific health risks associate with the role.
Keep abreast of emerging technical trends, so applicability to ETO products can be determined.
QUALIFICATION
Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics and
Communication. Overall 4 – 8 years of experience with a minimum of 2 years in developing Java-based
applications.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
1. Technical
Strong programming skills in Java and Python with proficiency in object-oriented design principles
Experience with Java frameworks such as DropWizard, Spring and Hibernate
Familiarity with web development frameworks (Angular or React)
Experience with Testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Mockito)
Hands-on experience with building stream-processing systems using Hadoop, Spark and related
technologies
Familiarity with distributed storage systems like Cassandra, MongoDB and JanusGraph.
Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Experience with Caching solutions like Hazelcast, Redis or MemCache
Knowledge of build tools like Maven or Gradle
Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines especially using Git
Working knowledge of Unix/Linux experience
Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail
2. Soft skills
Strong communication skills with a track record of working and collaborating with global teams,
Must possess the ability to handle multiple on-going assignments and be able to work independently in
addition to contributing as part of a highly collaborative and globally dispersed team,
Strong analytical skills with the ability to break down and communicate complex issues, ideas and
solutions,
Thorough knowledge and experience in all phases of SDLC
3. Additional skills (Advantage)
Working knowledge of enterprise database systems (Sybase or DB2) ,
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. It is not intended to be a complete list of assigned duties but to describe a
position level. The role shall be performed within a professional office environment. Goldman Sachs has health and safety polices that are available for all workers upon request. There are no
specific health risks associate with the role.
Programming in Perl, Python and shell script.
Knowledge and experience in building conversational user interfaces enabled by AI
YOUR CAREER
Goldman Sachs is a meritocracy where you will be given all the tools to help you develop. At Goldman Sachs, you
will have access to excellent training programmes designed to improve multiple facets of your skills portfolio. Our
in-house training programme, ‘Goldman Sachs University’ offers a comprehensive series of courses that you will
have access to as your career progresses. Goldman Sachs University has an impressive catalogue of courses
which span technical, business and leadership skills training.
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. It is not intended to be a complete list of assigned duties but to describe a
position level. The role shall be performed within a professional office environment. Goldman Sachs has health and safety polices that are available for all workers upon request. There are no
specific health risks associate with the role.