Software Engineering - Data, Lakehouse and AI Data Platform Engineer - Associate - New York

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. They are seeking a Data Engineer to join their Lakehouse and AI Data Platform team to design, build, test, and support data pipelines and curated datasets that enable analytics and AI use cases. The role involves working with modern data technologies to deliver reliable, scalable data products and contributing to platform tooling improvements where necessary.

What you'll do:

• Build, enhance and support batch and streaming data pipelines on the Lakehouse and AI data platform
• Refactor or modernise existing data flows where needed to improve reliability, performance and maintainability
• Where needed, build reusable tooling to improve delivery, consistency and operational support
• Ensure data pipelines are production-ready, well tested and operationally supportable
• Develop raw, refined and curated datasets that support analytics, reporting and AI use cases
• Apply sound data modelling principles to represent business entities, relationships and historical change accurately
• Work with consumers to shape data products that are usable, well documented and aligned to business needs
• Implement controls to validate completeness, accuracy and consistency of data across pipelines and datasets
• Use reconciliation approaches to build confidence in production outputs and investigate breaks where they arise
• Contribute to clear standards for testing, monitoring and issue resolution
• Contribute to practical improvements in testing, monitoring or reconciliation tooling where these strengthen platform reliability and day-to-day delivery
• Work closely with engineers, platform teams and data consumers to deliver agreed outcomes to time and quality expectations

What they're looking for:

• 0-2+ years of experience
• Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent practical experience, with evidence of strong quantitative skills or data engineering expertise
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Python or Java
• Good working knowledge of SQL, including troubleshooting, optimization and data analysis
• Ability to learn new tools, internal platforms and delivery workflows quickly
• Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, release discipline and CI/CD practices
• Understanding of temporal data modelling, including the handling of historical state and change over time
• Knowledge of schema design, schema evolution and data compatibility considerations
• Understanding of partitioning, clustering and other techniques used to improve data performance at scale
• Ability to make sensible design choices across normalized and denormalized models, and between natural and surrogate keys
• Practical approach to data quality, reconciliation and root-cause analysis
• Experience building or supporting production data pipelines in a collaborative engineering environment