Vanguard Hiring for Technical Lead II – Enterprise Advice Job at Malvern, PA Full Time

Do you want to come to work each day knowing your outcomes have a direct and positive impact on the investment success of Vanguard clients around the world?

Do you want to come to work each day knowing you are mastering your craft in leading edge cloud-based and micro-service technologies?

If you want to be part of a new team in Vanguard’s Enterprise Advice, then this opportunity is for you!

A key element of Vanguard’s flywheel is providing trusted advice and perspectives. Along with top- performing mutual funds and ETFs and a world-class client experience, advice helps us to give our clients a better chance for investment success. For many investors, especially in other markets around the world, advice remains inaccessible, inadequate, or unaffordable. Now, we are broadening our advice services around the world to better serve investors and support financial advisors in serving their clients. On this new team you will be developing a product that provides critical input to portfolio construction for a new client and portfolio rebalance opportunities for existing clients.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Expertise in Java development and the design of microservices
• AWS development experience

What You Will Do:

• Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, and/or hardware projects (e.g., applications, networks, communications, and client server technologies) on multiple platforms. Provide technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas. Complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure the viability of IT deliverables. Recommend development options, including design, build/buy, and vendor purchase. Approve the team’s technical deliverables. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• Identify potential solutions, including the cost/benefit of each option. Approve technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to IT experts, including architects and vendors. 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.
• Communicate with project manager on a frequent basis. Identify tasks and issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules. Provide realistic task and cost estimates. Screen resumes of team members, interviews, makes hiring and assignment recommendations, and writes reviews.
• Maintain a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentor IT staff and identify training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members. A Technical Lead II should be able to perform as a Developer III.
• Communicate with other technical leads, IT groups, and clients so they understand the project’s technical implications, dependencies, and potential conflicts. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on own/shared technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas.
• Review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members (e.g., system specifications). Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participate as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Present technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
• For teams without a BSA, perform this staff member’s duties, including interviewing business liaisons to diagram process flows and to write functional requirements. In the absence of the project manager, perform this staff member’s duties, including coordinating daily systems analysis and development activities.
• Thoroughly understand and comply with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established client service levels. Thoroughly understand and comply with Information Security policies and procedures, and verify deliverables meet Information Security requirements.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

What It Takes:

• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
• Eight years’ experience in technical specialty. For development technical leads, includes three years’ developer experience.
• Strong, demonstrated analysis and problem-solving skills
• Broad knowledge of the financial services industry
• Expert knowledge of one or more IT platforms.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, preferred.

Special Factor:

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.

Future of Work

During the pandemic, we transitioned to a work from home model for the majority of our crew and we continue to interview, hire, and on-board future crew remotely.

As we have developed the path forward, we have taken a thoughtful approach that both maximizes the advantages of working remotely and the many benefits of coming together and collaborating in a shared workspace. We believe that in-person interactions among our crew are important for preserving our unique culture and advantageous for the personal development of our crew.

When our Crew return to the office, many will work in our hybrid model. A smaller proportion of our crew will operate in the Work from Home work model (for example, field sales crew); or in the Work from Office model (for example, portfolio managers).

The working model that your role falls into will be communicated to you in the interview process – please do ask if you are unsure. We encourage you to make the decision regarding your job interview and offer knowing which model your role will fall into. We will test and learn as our ways of working evolve and will continue to evaluate working models along the way.