Software Engineer – Vice President – Wealth Management Engineering

Who We Are Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking, and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

The Client Communications Platform is a strategic initiative establishing industry-leading standards for transparency, efficiency, and consistent service in client and advisor communications. The platform is modernizing through cloud-native infrastructure (AWS) and advanced data processing technologies (Snowflake and Spark) to enhance data quality and availability. Spanning five technical domains—data sourcing, content generation, storage and accessibility, client delivery, and workflow analytics—the platform automates processes, improves user experiences, and transitions from legacy systems to modern, scalable solutions that deliver operational efficiencies and superior client service.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience to design, build, and operate cloud-native, data-intensive systems on AWS. You will lead the development of resilient microservices and high-throughput data pipelines leveraging Spring Boot, Apache Spark, and Snowflake. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on cloud expertise, data engineering skills, and a pragmatic approach to reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You are fluent with GitLab for source control, code reviews, and CI/CD.

Your Impact

· A successful candidate will be able to balance project management trade-offs, own decisions and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders across business partners and technology peers, with an eye towards influencing and driving positive business outcomes.

· Collaborate closely with product, data, and platform teams; author technical designs, review merge requests, and mentor engineers

· Design, develop and own cloud-native RESTful microservices and data pipelines using Java, Spring Boot, Apache Spark and Snowflake.

· Implement batch and streaming data processing using Spark (Data Frames, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming) on EMR or EKS; orchestrate with AWS Glue, Step Functions, or Airflow.

· Model and optimize Snowflake workloads (virtual warehouses, micro-partitioning, clustering, query profiling, caching); implement Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, RBAC, and data governance.

· Apply AWS Well-Architected best practices across reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence (VPC design, IAM least privilege, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch).

· Implement observability and SRE practices: metrics, logs, tracing (Open Telemetry), dashboards (CloudWatch, Grafana), alerting, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.

· Perform performance engineering (API latency, P99 improvements, Spark job tuning, Snowflake warehouse sizing) and cost governance (right-sizing, auto-suspend, lifecycle policies).

· Uphold high standards for testing (unit, integration, contract, performance), code quality, and secure coding; leverage GitLab pipeline gates for quality and security checks.

Basic Qualifications

· 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.

· Strong Java with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Data; Spring Cloud preferred.

· Solid grasp on Observability stack: Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana; distributed tracing.

· Strong foundation of cloud computing and distributed systems fundamentals: scalability, availability, consistency tradeoffs, event-driven architectures, idempotency, and backpressure.

· Experience working with no-SQL databases (MongoDB preferred) and messaging systems (Kafka)

· Proficient in data modeling and building reliable data integrations and APIs.

· Experience with CI/CD using GitLab CI/CD and Git version control; strong familiarity with merge requests, code reviews, and branching strategies.

· 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience with core services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch; understanding of networking (subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs).

· 2+ years working with Apache Spark (Data Frames, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming) including performance tuning (partitioning, join strategies, memory management, serialization).

Preferred Qualifications

· AWS Certifications (Solution Architect, Developer Associate/Professional)

· Spring Cloud patterns (service discovery, config, circuit breakers via Resilience4j).

· Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.

· Security and compliance familiarity (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) and secure data handling (PII, tokenization, masking).

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