Technology- GSS Technology- Derivatives Clearing Service- OO Developer recruitment

WHO WE ARE

Goldman Sachs is a 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

Derivatives Clearing Services, within Clearing Operations, is focused on a cutting edge and rapidly evolving area of the industry. The role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the success of Derivatives Clearing Services 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. 

This role is within the London Derivatives Clearing Services team. The global team is 9 people strong, distributed between London and New York. With a number of key strategic projects underway across the range of products, services and infrastructure, this is an exciting time to be joining the team. The team provides development and support to a number of groups across the expanding derivatives clearing business, utilizing SecDB; a proprietary strategic platform.

RESPONSIBILITIES

This role offers the chance to work as part of the development team in partnership with the global derivatives clearing business. The successful candidate will be part of a global team developing key strategic solutions and will be responsible for the full software development life cycle.  Projects will vary in size from smaller, time to market individual projects, working closely with the local London users to set requirements and deliver the product;  to being part of a project team (either local or global) on some of the larger projects or initiatives.

You will need to:
• Develop and test solutions in accordance within a defined software development process
• Actively participate in design discussions for both business flows and systems design
• Handle user queries and deliver system enhancements
• Project plan and produce technical designs
• Have close interaction with business users to gather functional requirements and discuss day to day processing
• Communicate status of assigned projects to users and IT globally

DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

The candidate will have the opportunity to:
• Develop a deep understanding of the Derivatives Clearing business and flows across derivatives asset classes
• Gain a detailed understanding of the GS Clearing Operations organization, technical architecture and software development practices
• Build close working relationships with Business Users
• Participate in a high work ethic environment
• Build expertise and experience in the various technologies and practices used in Goldman Sachs IT as a whole

SKILL / EXPERIENCE

MANDATORY
• 2+ years of hands on development experience (Java/C++)
• Willingness to cross train to a proprietary programming language (SLANG)
• Experience working with business users and requirements gathering
• Relational database experience (e.g. Sybase, IBM UDB)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Working knowledge of Linux/UNIX
• Strong team player (required to work extensively with other teams both locally and globally)
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)

PREFERRED
• Experience of financial markets, OTC derivatives in particular will be an advantage but not essential
• Experience working with object-oriented databases

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the principle of diversity. Goldman Sachs conducts background checks on individuals offered employment with the firm and employment with Goldman Sachs is conditional upon individuals successfully completing those checks.  As part of the background check process, Goldman Sachs may need to obtain a record of disclosable criminal convictions from a government agency such as the Criminal Records Bureau. The firm has adopted policies on the recruitment of ex-offenders and on the retention, storage and disposal of criminal record information which are available on request.