Looking to make a change? Interested in Personal Investor? Enjoy working initiatives across multiple teams? We have the position for you! As an Application Engineering Technical Lead for Personal Investor, you will be responsible for some technical aspects of our implementations, improving current and future processes, exploring new features and functionality, monitoring our security footprint, analyzing data to make decisions and numerous other initiatives.

A successful candidate is someone who exhibits curiosity, unafraid to ask questions while also able learn independently through self-research and whose technical skills and expertise can anchor more to the cloud modernized ecosystem rather than the legacy. The candidate in return will gain a tremendous understanding of the entire technical architecture of the enterprise, develop a wide network in Personal Investor (PI) and beyond and grow their breadth of technical expertise.

In this role, you will be part of:

Cross-Cutting Work

Be the Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) that understand the legacy and modernized technical ecosystem and applies that knowledge to review the cross-cutting initiatives that are distributed to PI product teams and other shared service partners. It involves working directly with the submitters of the product families, Client Experience & Digital (CXD) counterparts and domain architects to understand the effort, define a clear scope, decompose technical analysis into Jira artifacts, engineering and abstraction where needed, alongside developing a process to streamline impacted applications.

Intake Ceremony

Work that impacts PiTech is presented at the intake meeting by the project team responsible for delivering the work. Technical questions are asked during this meeting to ensure that the project is ready to proceed, and our team has all the required information for successful triage. Understanding the PiTech processes and identifying strategies to improve them is essential. You will function as the senior technical lead/architect understanding the effort level, complexity and impact to product families.

Partnerships

We closely partner with the risk team, cloud team, and incident management team to ensure projects are properly reviewed. Some items benefit from centralized solutions, which could simplify tasks for PiTech teams or eliminate the need for teams to make individual changes. We collaborate with teams such as the Cloud Engineering Team, ServiceNow, Test Data Team, MarTech, Adobe Launch Team, and others to understand the nature of their work and its impact on our process.

Additional responsibilities

• Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provide technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.

• Ensure the viability of IT deliverables. Recommend development options and approves the team's technical deliverables. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.

• Identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and perform root cause analysis. Anticipate technology problems and prevent them.

• Communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas.

  What it takes:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience.

• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

• AWS experience preferred.

• Understanding older web technologies such as JSPs, JSF framework, XHTML, and JavaScript.

• Understanding mid-tier and UI development and architecture.

• Familiarity with programming languages like Python, Java, Node.js. Cloud Infrastructure templating languages like CloudFormation or Terraform is a plus.

• Familiarity with tools like Docker.

  Specializations that will make an impact:

• Data Driven aptitude.

• DB2 knowledge

• Scrum Master knowledge / certification

• Knowledge of Linux operating system, Apache, Tomcat, and application server configuration in the Ansible pipeline.

• Excellent Communication skills

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.