Engineering - Project Management - Vice President - London Job Description ABOUT CORE ENGINEERING & SRE Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Goldman Sachs combines software and systems engineering to build, improve, and operate the firm’s most critical, large‑scale, fault‑tolerant platforms. SRE is responsible for the availability, reliability, and resilience of foundational services used across thousands of internal engineers daily, spanning on‑prem data centres and multiple public cloud environments. SRE defines and implements firm‑wide standards for digital resilience, observability, incident response, SLIs/SLOs, production readiness, and operational excellence. The team provides platforms such as central logging, monitoring, alerting, orchestration, deployment automation, and tools for capacity planning, operational readiness, incident postmortems, and reliability insights. These capabilities underpin the reliability of every product shipped across Engineering. ROLE OVERVIEW We are seeking a Vice President Programme & Change Manager to lead a major cross‑Engineering transformation initiative within SRE. This role drives strategic change that enhances the firm’s reliability posture, operational resilience, and engineering efficiency. You will operate at the intersection of programme leadership, engineering transformation, and organisational change, partnering with senior stakeholders across Engineering, SRE Product Owners, Cloud Enablement Engineering, Cloud, Security, Architecture, and our revenue‑aligned engineering teams. This leader will run a complex, multi‑year, firm‑wide flagship programme, ensuring SRE’s strategic agenda is delivered consistently, transparently, and with strong execution discipline. HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL Lead SRE‑wide and Core Engineering strategic programmes

Drive large, cross‑divisional change initiative that evolves the firm’s reliability posture, observability strategy, cloud adoption readiness, incident management maturity, capacity planning, and production tooling ecosystem. Partner with SRE technical leaders to translate strategy into programme scope, milestones, outcomes, and measurement frameworks. Provide transparent reporting, executive updates, risk escalation, and budget tracking for senior Engineering leadership. Run forums and ensure alignment with firm‑wide engineering standards and regulatory expectations.

Risk & issue management

Identify programme‑level risks and impediments, drive mitigation plans, and escalation appropriately to ensure programme health.

Cross‑functional coordination & delivery execution

Work with Product, Design, Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud teams, Security, and revenue‑aligned engineering to execute front‑to‑back change initiatives.

Operational excellence & transformation tooling

Promote SRE best practices and modern programme tooling for transparency and roadmap management. Support test strategy development, production readiness checks, and post‑implementation reviews.

Champion SRE’s mission

Embed SRE principles—reliability, observability, incident learning, automation, and continuous improvement—into all programme plans and change frameworks. Ensure technology, process, and organisational changes align with SRE’s core mission of delivering resilient, scalable, and sustainable production systems.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR Basic Qualifications

7–10+ years of programme management, transformation leadership, or large‑scale engineering change experience. Proven track record delivering cross‑functional programmes involving teams from many disciplines. Strong communication skills with ability to influence senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Experience managing risk, budgets, multi‑team dependencies, and programme governance.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong growth mindset and drive to make a difference. Understanding of SRE principles, production operations, digital resilience, observability tooling, incident management, and cloud‑native platforms. Experience in large engineering organisations or technology‑led transformation. Familiarity with Agile delivery, OKRs, JIRA/Confluence, testing frameworks, and enterprise planning tooling. Ability to work in fast‑paced engineering environments with multiple competing priorities.

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Job Identification 161060 Job Category Vice President Posting Date 03/03/2026, 02:09 PM Locations London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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