Job Description
What We Do
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
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Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists’ groups, 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.
Asset and Wealth Management (AWM)
About
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. We are:
- Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
- Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios
- Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions
- Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goal
Who We Look For
We are looking for a seasoned Technical Program Manager with a proven ability to lead strategic engineering projects that enhance digital client experiences and drive significant business outcomes. You'll need a strong foundation in software development, demonstrated success in managing large-scale initiatives, and exceptional stakeholder management skills. We value candidates who possess maturity, sound judgment, negotiation prowess, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. Your analytical talent and leadership will be crucial in defining strategy, driving consensus on technical approaches, and ensuring timely delivery. Excellent communication skills, both technical and business-oriented, are essential for collaborating with diverse teams and providing updates to leadership. We're looking for an influential leader who can prioritize effectively, build trust, and optimize cross-functional efficiency.
YOU WILL
- Work with the Scrum Team and stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support project teams.
- Guide team members in story writing and refinement, backlog maintenance, prioritization and planning. Facilitating creation and prioritization of sprint backlogs.
- Facilitate all Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams.
- Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report sprint highlights, milestones, quarterly progress, and support data-driven decisions.
- Facilitate estimation and planning, creating reliable and practical forecasts for sprints and releases.
- Lead project execution, status monitoring and communication, managing change, risk and dependencies.
- Identify risks, communicate appropriately, devise and implement mitigants, track and remove impediments, and guide the team to remove impediments.
- Engage diverse stakeholders (e.g. Product, Engineering, Design, Ops, Compliance, etc.), synthesize complex requirements, manage competing priorities, recommend appropriate solutions and optimize roadmaps.
- Guide and coach the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers
- Assess the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and coach to higher levels of maturity by defining scaling practices, team-level best practices, tooling and reporting.
- Coordinate alignment of product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to guide the development process and ensure clear communication between stakeholders in an agile environment.
- Manage priorities, resourcing levels, time constraints and initiative scope with sponsors and stakeholders across the duration of all project phases.
- Provide oversight of multiple priorities to ensure scope, project plan, timelines and stakeholder expectations are aligned for success.
Skills And Experience We Are Looking For
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team that diligently applied Agile principles, practices, and theory.
- Experience with all stages of the project lifecycle: inception, analysis, design, review, testing, and software development leveraging agile methodologies and tools while identifying risks and dependencies as early as possible.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to make data-driven decisions and strong project management technical skills.
- Proficiency in collaborating with software engineers, understanding software architecture, and translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across levels.
- Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and delivering software solutions on schedule and within budget.
- Strong organization skills - ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize accordingly and make decisions as required.
- Demonstrate excellent people management skills and ability to influence key stakeholders outside their direct control.
- Understanding of Financial concepts, products and services
- Understanding of the Technology Concepts and System Development Life Cycle fundamentals
- Highly motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously as well as in a team and collaboration-oriented environment
- Excellent attention to detail, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Be a strategic thinker, able to lead project working groups, possessing strong facilitation and data gathering skills, and able to provide creative & innovative solutions.
- Be proficient in Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
- Project Management and/or Agile Certification would be an advantage.
Preferred Qualifications
- Software development experience.
- Experience in Scrum Master or any other scaled agile transformation roles in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.).
- Active participant in the Agile community.
- Understanding of wealth and asset management, and investment products.
