GSS Prime Clearing Technology – Analyst Developer recruitment

The Global Securities Services group (GSS) within Equities division, is a fast paced technology driven business area, with a long track record of sustained growth within Goldman Sachs and the industry. It provides first-class client services to our institutional and hedge fund clients; providing a range of services from stock lending, securities custody, risk management and margin financing, and execution and clearing services.

The Prime Clearing Technology (PCT) team in GSS is responsible for developing and maintaining the prime brokerage and futures suite of applications which cover areas such as external client reporting, custody, portfolio management and accounting, trade processing and booking to settlement factories and client services representatives’ applications.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the success of GSS and also offers significant opportunities for long term career growth and the chance to develop technical, business and leadership skills with exposure to a broad range of products and business flows.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The role is for a software developer in the Client Technology team which has a bias on building external client facing applications for reporting and/or analysis.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Full involvement in software development life-cycle from requirements to participation in full design discussions – GS prides itself on early engagement with business stakeholders and wider technical community

• The role will involve significant hands-on development and we look for people who are flexible across technology stacks including our own proprietary technology environments

• Develop and test solutions in accordance within a defined software development process.

• Provide Level 2-3 support by handling user queries and deliver system enhancements.

DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

This position offers an excellent opportunity for someone with relevant technical skills to learn the business and work directly on applications used by external clients while interacting with our business unit on a daily basis.

The candidate will have the opportunity to:

• Gain a detailed understanding of Prime Brokerage flows across equity, fixed income and derivatives: listed and OTC

• Build expertise in the development of distributed, service-orientated and event-driven applications in a heterogeneous environment

• Grow leadership and project management skills - with the potential to manage project teams in the future.    

• Also we will be looking for candidates who are comfortable to cross-train into GS proprietary risk and pricing framework (SecDB)

• Project work will vary from portal development to bespoke client applications and reporting

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

MANDATORY

• 3-5 years of hands on development in Java

• Java, JSPs, Struts, JavaScript and other portal technologies

• Familiar with OO programming concepts and design patterns

• Relational database experience (e.g. Sybase ASE or IQ, IBM UDB)

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Working knowledge of UNIX

• Strong team player (required to work extensively with other teams both locally and globally)

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

PREFERRED

• C# experience is a plus

• Experience of financial markets in general and prime brokerage in particular will be an advantage but not essential.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors (Hons.) Degree or Equivalent