About company :
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1869, it has played a major role in shaping global financial markets for over 150 years. The firm offers services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, asset management, trading, and securities underwriting. It serves a wide range of clients including corporations, governments, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Known for its strong presence on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs is influential in global finance and policy. The firm has also expanded into consumer banking through Marcus by Goldman Sachs. With a global workforce, it operates in major financial centers around the world. Despite occasional controversies, it remains one of the most prestigious and powerful investment banks in the world.
Job Summary & Responsibilities :
The Futures Technology engineering team is looking for an experienced client onboarding specialist with software engineering skills to join a growing team in a fast-paced front office environment with a high level of direct interaction with external clients, vendors, trading desks and internal platform engineering teams.
Key responsibilities will involve working closely with stakeholders from to hand hold internal and external clients from the initial request to production go-live. This includes gathering requirements, evaluating specifications, capacity and throughput management, coordinating testing, managing the change process, implementing client specific configurations and deployment. The team has strong relationships with the business and other engineering and platform teams to provide professional solutions for Goldman Sachs electronic trading for our clients. Additional responsibilities include enhancing and streamlining the process, applications and tooling used for facilitating a smooth client onboard.
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelor’s / master’s degree in engineering, computer science or an equivalent.
- Strong understanding of FIX Protocol, FIX certification and testing experience
- Excellent communication skills, particularly with external clients
- Good knowledge of UNIX/Linux
- Good knowledge of SQL and databases
- Good knowledge of connectivity, Networks and TCP/IP, Firewalls
- Programming or scripting knowledge
- Exposure to any of the asset classes: Equities, Futures, Options, FX.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
