Data Engineering - Vendor Data Products - Software Engineer - Associate - Dallas

Goldman Sachs - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Dallas, TX

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Vendor Data Compliance team is responsible for the entire life cycle of vendor data contractual compliance. This includes engaging with vendor audits, reviewing and certifying market data use cases from applications (both internal and external-facing), designing and implementing entitlement controls and usage metering for real-time and non-real-time data, ensuring accurate inventory chargeback, fulfilling vendor of records reporting obligations, and managing vendor data notifications. The team plays a leading role in designing and building out the Vendor Data Marketplace, which encompasses cataloging, workflow management, entitlement, usage metering, and inventory chargeback. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with vendor managers, business analysts, and vendor data pipeline engineers. Your contributions will directly impact the improvement of our commercial compliance posture, optimization of market data expenses, automation of workflows, and the enhancement of the user experience with vendor data. You will be responsible for driving application reviews, recertification, and mitigation efforts to ensure compliance with market data vendor policies and contractual agreements. Engaging with market data vendor auditors will be a key part of your role, facilitating on-site visits, records reconciliation, negotiation, and audit closure. You will also streamline and automate vendor of records reports to meet contractual obligations by leveraging modern data platform tools. Additionally, you will develop, maintain, and manage a vendor data catalog that enhances discoverability in the Vendor Data Marketplace, and help drive data quality improvement and monitoring for our inventory data, which is foundational for our governance and catalog.

Responsibilities

• Drive application reviews, recertification, and mitigation to ensure compliance with market data vendors' policies and contractual agreements.
• Engage with market data vendor auditors to facilitate on-site visits, records reconciliation, negotiation, and audit closure.
• Streamline and automate vendor of records reports that meet vendor contractual obligations by leveraging modern data platform tools.
• Develop, maintain, and manage a vendor data catalog that drives discoverability in the Vendor Data Marketplace.
• Help drive data quality improvement and monitoring for our inventory data, which is the foundation of our governance and catalog.

Requirements

• Good understanding of the concept of entitlement control, privilege management, or market data commercial policies.
• Ability to interact with application developers to gain a thorough understanding of their use cases.
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience in a team-focused environment.
• A Bachelor's degree (Masters preferred) in a computational field (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or in a related quantitative discipline).
• Working knowledge of more than one programming language (Python, Java, C++, C#, etc.).
• Extensive knowledge and proven experience applying domain-driven design to build complex business applications.
• Deep understanding of the multidimensionality of data, data curation, and data quality, such as traceability, security, performance latency, and correctness across supply and demand processes.
• In-depth knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design.
• General knowledge of business processes, data flows, and the quantitative models that generate or consume data.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with subject matter experts to extract critical business concepts.
• Independent thinker, willing to engage, challenge, or learn.
• Ability to stay commercially focused and to always push for quantifiable commercial impact.
• Strong work ethic, a sense of ownership and urgency.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and communicate complex ideas in a simple manner.

Nice-to-haves

• Financial Services industry experience
• Market Data commercial contracts and policies
• Knowledge of Calero or FITS software product.

Benefits

• Healthcare & Medical Services
• Competitive vacation policies with a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
• Financial support for higher education and live financial education on various topics.
• Medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations.
• Counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program.
• On-site fitness centers and reimbursement for fitness club memberships or activities.
• On-site child care centers providing full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms.
• Advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources, and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave.