Specialized Cloud - Technical Product Manager - Vice President (Seattle, WA)

Goldman Sachs • Seattle, WA

19h

About The Position

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. Goldman Sachs
Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in Artificial
Intelligence, risk management, big data, mobile and more.

 

Cloud Platform

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team is
responsible for enabling the use of public cloud services across the firm. You
will be working as part of multi-disciplinary team responsible for researching,
architecting and building a cutting-edge platform that enable Goldman Sachs
teams to deploy and manage services in public cloud safely and securely. We are
at an early stage of modernizing our services around cloud native principles,
and you will be directly contributing to platform that programmatically enforces
safety, security and compliance of services and enables engineers to innovate
faster.

The organization is seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually
curious individuals who are passionate about developing and implementing
cutting-edge cloud computing solutions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a
dynamic culture and contribute to customer-centric product development. They
will work closely with cross-functional teams, and will be creative
collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global
environment.

 

Responsibilities And Qualifications:

As part of Core Engineering at Goldman Sachs, the Cloud Platform team enables
the safe and secure use of public cloud services across the firm. In this Vice
President Technical Product Manager role, you will own the forward-looking
strategy and product direction for the firm’s specialized cloud platforms
(Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Google Cloud Platform). You
will work in a multi-disciplinary, DevOps-oriented environment to define
customer-centric platform capabilities that programmatically enforce safety,
security, resiliency, and compliance, allowing engineering teams to expedite
cloud adoption.  You must have a proficient understanding of cloud deployment
strategies, software development practices, and risk management, with extensive
experience in product management,

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, plus 5+ years of relevant professional experience in technical product management and/or cloud platform roles.
• Demonstrated ability to own a platform product roadmap end-to-end, including requirements definition, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and lifecycle management.
• Strong technical fluency with at least one major public cloud provider, and familiarity with the concepts and constraints of deploying and operating services on public cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of security, resiliency, and high availability principles for cloud-native services, and the ability to reason about performance and process interactions in distributed systems.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, a team-oriented mindset, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
• Ability to independently deliver on Product Roadmap, Operational Stability and Execution Strategy.

Nice To Haves

• Prior product ownership of internal developer platforms or cloud enablement capabilities that enforce security, isolation, and multi-tenant patterns at scale.
• Awareness of regulatory requirements in Financial Services related to third party outsourcing.
• Understanding of cloud network architectures and integration with hybrid cloud networking in enterprise environments.
• Depth in one or more of Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or Google Cloud Platform, especially in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tooling, including CI/CD concepts and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, Bicep, CDKs), sufficient to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Set product vision and strategy for specialized cloud platforms by aligning client requirements and objectives to a platform 'North Star' and socialize a roadmap of reaching this goal
• Define a clear, multi-quarter roadmap of platform capabilities, detailing known constrains and potential impediments.
• Create “working backwards” artifacts (e.g., strategy memos, customer narratives, problem statements, success metrics) that align stakeholders on the why, what, and how of the platform offerings.
• Solicit and prioritize customer needs by partnering closely with engineering teams migrating workloads to public cloud, and by incorporating feedback into an outcome-driven roadmap 
• Partner with engineering, security, and relevant risk/compliance stakeholders to define turn-key, scalable, compliant, and performant solutions that accelerate adoption of Azure, Oracle, and Google cloud services
• Drive technical and architectural decision-making by facilitating cross-organization discussions
• Advocate best practices for public cloud application development and cloud-native modernization across the firm through guidance, standards, and repeatable platform patterns.
• Engage cloud providers (Microsoft, Oracle, Google) to influence and enhance their offerings to meet the firm’s and the finance industry’s requirements.
• Define and inspect product success metrics (e.g., adoption, time-to-onboard, reliability/operational stability outcomes), and continuously iterate the platform offerings across the full lifecycle.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees