Manager - I, Application Engineering Chapter Lead (The Vanguard Group / Malvern, PA) -- Hire, evaluate, and supervise crew; provide guidance and training as necessary to develop crew; set performance standards, review performance, and make informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures; work with product leaders and resource/department managers to ensure adequate development resources are in place; provide senior level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases; integrate third party products; ensure expected application performance levels are achieved; monitor completion of deliverables; ensure viability of IT deliverables; recommend development options and conduct testing; ensure consistency of knowledge and skills, sharing best practices and common challenges in their area and others; maintain current knowledge of IT development methodology, and technical standards; mentor IT staff; as new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members; communicate with key stakeholders to ensure understanding of project's technical implications, dependencies, and potential conflicts; evaluate impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas; provide realistic task and cost estimates; review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members; write documentation, including technical standards and processes; participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to contribute technical expertise and to identify issues; present technical status and issues at milestone reviews. 40% of time spent on management of projects and 60% software engineering. Requires Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electronic(s) Engineering, or closely related IT field and five years of experience in job offered or in IT position(s) including Senior Software Developer and/or Associate Software Engineer and/or Assistant Consultant and/or Developer. Background in education, training or experience must include hands on software development; Java, Spring/Spring Boot framework; STS or IntelliJ or other IDE, Splunk or other logging or tracing tool, Maven, Jenkins or other build and deployment tool, Control-M, SQL and Stored Procedures, Mainframe development skillset -- COBOL, JCL, DB2. Company operates on hybrid model with three days in office and work-from-home available two days.