Job Description
What We Do
At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.
Job Responsibilities
- Data & Controls (Governance, Quality, Lineage): Establish and operate a strong data governance framework (policies, standards, ownership, data dictionary/metadata, lineage, retention) to ensure data quality, consistency, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance across Ledger and credit card data.
- Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA): Partner with Operational Risk, Compliance, and Business stakeholders to identify key risks, define/control objectives, document processes and controls, perform control testing/attestations, manage issues and action plans, and support periodic RCSA refreshes and governance routines.
- Strategic Initiatives & Control-by-Design: Architect and deliver strategic business initiatives across enterprise platforms to improve customer experience and enable scalable ledger solutions, embedding preventative/detective controls, auditability, and data quality checks throughout the end-to-end flow.
- Internal Audit & Regulatory Exam Support: Act as a primary point of contact for audit/exam requests; coordinate walkthroughs, evidence collection, and timely responses; draft/review narratives and control documentation; and drive closure of findings through sustainable remediation and validation.
- Regulatory & Compliance Partnership: Stay current on applicable regulations and internal policies; translate regulatory changes into requirements, control updates, and platform enhancements; and ensure implementation is documented and evidencable.
- Production Support & Operational Excellence: Lead incident triage and resolution for data/ledger integrations (on-call as needed); perform root-cause analysis; implement preventative controls, monitoring, and alerting; manage problem tickets and post-incident reviews; and improve runbooks to raise platform stability and availability.
- SME – Core Ledger & Credit Card Domain: Serve as subject matter expert for core ledger platforms and upstream/downstream consumer systems (e.g., card processing, payments, disputes/chargebacks, billing, statements, GL/sub-ledger, reconciliations, and firmwide reporting). Translate product and finance requirements into scalable ledger solutions and operating processes.
- Expert Business Analysis & Controls Delivery: Lead discovery with Business, Product, Finance, Risk, and Tech to define problem statements, process maps, control points, and target-state architecture. Produce high-quality BRDs/FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios; drive traceability from requirements to controls and evidence.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Collaboration: Partner with internal/external product managers, technology teams, and control functions to ensure cohesive end-to-end design, clear ownership, and predictable delivery outcomes.
- Controls Assessment & Enhancement: Assess control effectiveness, identify gaps, and implement more robust preventative/detective controls to reduce customer, operational, regulatory, and reputational risk; ensure controls are measurable, evidenced, and sustainable.
- Platform Ownership & Delivery Management: Own scope for core banking/ledger services; drive PI planning, dependency management, and prioritization; and partner with engineering to deliver well-controlled releases (testing, cutover, validation, and post-release monitoring).
- Firmwide Integration & Sign-offs: Coordinate implementation, integration testing, reconciliations, and data-flow validation across upstream/downstream systems; drive timely issue resolution to secure approvals from Finance, Risk, and other critical control functions.
Minimum Education Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
Minimum Years Of Experience Required
: 10 (Ten) years of experience
Special Skills Required To Perform The Job
Prior work experience must include 5 (five) years with:
- Robust stakeholder management and influencing skills across Business, Product, Engineering, Finance/Controllers, Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit to drive decisions and timely execution.
- Strong understanding of Business Risk and Operational Risk concepts (process, risk & control taxonomy, inherent vs. residual risk, key controls, control design effectiveness vs. operating effectiveness) and experience supporting RCSA, issues management, and control testing/attestation.
- Leading discovery, process mapping, and target-state design; translating requirements into executable epics/stories with clear acceptance criteria; designing preventative/detective controls aligned to business/operational risks; and defining control evidence, reporting, and test strategy.
- Strong program/project management skills driving end-to-end platform and control initiatives, including scope, RAID, dependencies, delivery governance, and maintaining audit-ready documentation and evidence.
Prior Work Experience Must Include 3 (three) Years With
- Triaging and troubleshooting production issues; performing root-cause analysis; improving monitoring/alerting; and maintaining runbooks, SLAs, and operational KPIs.
- Working in Lending, Deposits & Payments domains with strong exposure to Core Ledger and credit card business processes and data flows.
Prior Work Experience Must Include 1 (one) Year With
- Working with regulatory and compliance requirements across lines of business, including control documentation, evidence expectations, and issue remediation practices.
- Experience leading digital transformation, platform modernization, and version upgrade programs with strong testing, cutover, and operational readiness discipline.
Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture
At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.
Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here!
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.