Securities, Equities, Eqs Trading Platform Strats, Associate

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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Divisional Overview

Goldman Sachs’ Strats business unit is a world leader in developing quantitative and technological solutions to solve complex business problems. Working within the firm’s trading, sales, banking and investment management divisions, strats use their mathematical, scientific, and technical training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, measure risk, and identify market opportunities.

Roles within Securities Strats

Securities Strats play important roles in several areas. Some Strats sit on trading desks, creating cutting-edge derivative pricing models and developing empirical models to provide insight into market behavior. Others develop automated trading algorithms for the firm and its clients, taking an active part in the increasing shift from voice to electronic trading. A third group works directly with the firm’s sales force and clients, analyzing exposures, structuring transactions, and applying quantitative concepts to meet client needs. Between these teams, Core Strats design and develop complex parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools, and advanced algorithms.

Liquidity Strats

Liquidity Strats are responsible for order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing and internalization for listed options and equities. They are responsible for requirements gathering, research, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring trading performance for strategies running on low latency trading platforms. The team interfaces on a regular basis with sales, trading, technology, and other strats teams.

The team is accountable for platform architecture evolution to meet the evolving needs of different business lines with rapid software deployment. As stewards of critical components in order execution, the team is accountable for a high degree of software quality. The team consists of self-guided pragmatic individuals who are motivated to change the status quo in calculated ways.

Job Summary and Responsibilities:

•Design, build and maintain a  high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform for order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing and internalization.
•Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it.
•Understand North American market rules, regulations, exchange service offerings and implement changes to these on an on-going basis.
•Communication with traders, clients and compliance officers about new feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

Basic Qualifications

•Degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience
•Thorough knowledge of C++ and programming concepts
•Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
•Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team

Preferred Qualifications

•Linux systems programming including memory management, concurrent programming infrastructure, and the networking stack
•Distributed server software
•Low latency or real time software development
•Project management and software development practices
•Data analysis
•SQL, Perl, Python, Regular expressions
•Data driven performance analysis and optimizations
•Financial markets

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet.  © The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2015.  All rights reserved.

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