Corporate Planning & Management - CPM Spend Platform Engineering - Associate

Who We Are

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

Job Function: Application Development 

Your Impact 

In Corporate Planning and Management (CPM), we provide engineering solutions that enable the firm to plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses, manage spend, third party risk and support corporate decision making in-line with the firm’s strategic objectives.

Are you interested in learning about finance or perhaps expanding what you know, while still staying close to your roots as a software engineer? As a software engineer in CPM Engineering, you will help create new and/or transform financial and spend management workflows and build intelligent reporting to drive commercial benefits to the firm. You will explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets and will have the opportunity to impact one or more aspects of corporate planning and management, while working in small, nimble teams.

How will you fulfill your potential

• You are energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Intuitively coalesce towards problems with an open mind, within the context of a team
• You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environments
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Provide digitally-advanced financial products to clients
• Collaborate with globally-located cross functional team in building customer-centric products
• Analyze existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide estimates for implementing new features
• Update and maintain documentation for team processes, best practices, and software runbooks

Basic Qualifications 

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
• 3+ years of experience writing Java APIs
• Expertise in React JS, HTML5, Java
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product heads, and executive level stakeholders
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture
• Experience integrating with Restful web services
• Comfort with agile operating models

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with micro service architecture
• Experience with React JS
• Experience with Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Spring Boot