Financial Data Engineer - Global Markets, GM Franchise Data, VP, London

GLOBAL MARKETS
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.
YOUR IMPACT
This is an exciting opportunity to work on the PAD (portfolio, analytics and data) platform. You will be collaborating with desks, strategists and engineers to improve the risk and pricing infrastructure. We are looking for a front office developer with strong technical skills and a background in financial data who would like to innovate, solve problems for the business, and drive our platform forwards.
The Franchise Data Strategies group is a small team of dedicated people who target the data needs and requirements of Goldman Sachs' front office. We deliver technology driven solutions for normalizing and analyzing real-time and reference data from a large number of sources, both inside and outside of the firm. These include: Reuters, Bloomberg, MarkIT, MSCI, Computstat, CapIQ, Axioma and IBES to name but a few.

HOW YOU WILL FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Utilizing your deep knowledge of financial data and its application, you will extend and enhance the PAD research and analytics data platform
• Work with the front office to meet the business needs for data
• Source, model and curate new data feeds and APIs
• Consult and provide support for our global data platform

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of financial, fundamental, pricing and reference data
• Experienced SQL developer with database design and modelling skills
• Strong programmer, in either compiled or scripting languages
• Skilled communicator and collaborator
• Proven problem solving ability with critical and creative thinking

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Index/ETFs, equities and corporate actions
• Data feed handling experience ( MSCI / FTSE / Markit / DeltaOne ).
• Knowledge of ElasticSearch / NoSql databases

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.

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