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Engineering-Jersey City-Vice President-Software Engineering

Jersey City, NJ, United States

Job Description

About THE Team

The Client Identities Team, part of Identity and Access Management in the Engineering Division, is dedicated to delivering foundational platform services that support unified identity and authentication solutions. These services are designed to streamline the login process, minimize friction, and ensure secure access for external clients to the firm's client-facing applications, while enhancing security and reducing operational and infrastructure expenses for the firm.

HOW YOU Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Document, design, and test service-oriented enterprise software to help deliver critical business functions related to Authentication and Lifecycle Management of firm’s digital client identities.
• Liaise with the firm’s technology risk groups to review design against the prescribed architecture, security and control framework for secure deployments.
• Participate in definition of requirements and help with deployment and support.
• Ensure that all platforms are built in accordance with the firm’s SDLC recommendations such as Git, Maven, and in accordance with industry-standard practices such as RESTful web services.
• Design, evaluate, and recommend tools and technologies that the team should be using to help solve business problems.
• Document testing strategies, plan and run the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase to engage all essential stakeholders and acquire business approvals.
• Discuss changes to software that has already been deployed to enhance capabilities based on feedback obtained from business users.
• Guide new users to adopt the platform seamlessly and demise legacy on-premise software.

Skills AND Experience WE ARE Looking FOR

• Designing and managing applications or processes on Amazon Web Services (AWS), leveraging understanding of core AWS services and basic AWS architecture best practices.
• Working across requirements, design, and maintenance of distributed applications in Java.
• Utilizing Python to analyze and maintain server-side scripts.
• Using SQL to analyze database queries and store procedures.
• Supporting production environments to analyze and provide enhancements and break fixes as required.
• Experience creating resilient, low latency and robust services through a combination of high availability infrastructure and transaction management.
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose performance, security, and process interactions in complex distributed systems
• Ability to understand and effectively debug both new and existing software.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 or more years of experience designing and developing distributed applications in a collaborative global team
• Relevant background in security concepts, including authentication, authorization, encryption and secure coding practices
• Familiarity with products such as PingFederate, Okta, Kerberos
• Understanding of some or all of the following concepts: OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, Open ID Connect, IAM (Identity and Access Management), Multi Factor Authentication, Web Application Security, API gateways, REST APIs, SCIM standard, Security Logging
• Strong analytical, reporting and presentation skills

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

About Goldman Sachs

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 GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2021. All rights reserved.

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Job Info

• Job Identification168948
• Job CategoryVice President
• Posting Date04/15/2026, 01:14 PM
• LocationsJersey City, NJ, United States

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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

Holiday & Vacation Policies

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

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).

Childcare & Family

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.

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