Global Banking & Markets - Software Engineering - Vice President - Birmingham Birmingham Unit ...

Global Banking & Markets - Software Engineering - Vice President - Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Vice President language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Birmingham assignment JOB FUNCTION Software Engineering account_balance DIVISION Global Banking & Markets

Goldman Sachs Investment Banking (IB) works on some of the most complex financial challenges and transactions in the market today. Whether advising on a merger, providing financial solutions for an acquisition, or structuring an initial public offering, we handle projects that help clients at major milestones. We work with corporations, pension funds, financial sponsors, and governments and are team of strong analytical thinkers, who have a passion for producing out-of-the-box ideas.

• Architectural Patterns: In-depth knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, domain-driven design (DDD), and various architectural styles (e.g., monolithic, microservices, event-driven).
• System Design: Ability to design highly scalable, available, resilient, and performant systems. This includes capacity planning, load balancing, caching strategies, and disaster recovery.
• Data Management: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB). Understanding of data modelling, database optimization, and data migration strategies.
• Messaging & Streaming: Experience with message brokers and streaming platforms like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS etc.
• API Development: Proficiency in designing and developing RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and understanding API gateway concepts.
• Understanding of Cloud Providers: Proficiency in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, VPC, CloudFormation, EKS) is crucial, including their core services and architectural best practices.
• Cloud Architecture Patterns: Experience with designing and implementing cloud-native architectures such as microservices, serverless, event-driven, and containerized applications.
• Agentic AI Principles: Understanding the concepts of intelligent agents, their architectures (e.g., perception-action cycles, memory, planning), and how they interact with environments. Knowledge of how LLMs work, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and integrating them into applications. Concepts related to how AI agents make decisions, plan actions, and achieve goals. Understanding biases, fairness, transparency, and responsible AI development, especially critical for agentic systems.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to lead technical teams, mentor junior developers, and drive architectural decisions.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to troubleshoot complex issues and design innovative solutions.
• Stakeholder Management: Capability to collaborate effectively with product owners, project managers, and other teams to align technical solutions with business goals.

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.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more:

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.