Discretionary Advice Platform Engineering is committed to Vanguard's goal to bring high-quality, affordable Advice to our clients. DAP enables multiple advice offers including an all-digital offer for the masses and a hybrid offer that pairs the digital experience with an Advisor for clients who value human support. Both offers are available for Personal Investor clients and Institutional plan participants.
We are a team living the principles of agile and lean and we seek ambitious outcomes that resonate with clients while creating a fun and exciting work experience for our crew. You will have the opportunity to work with the newest technology at Vanguard and be a part of a phenomenal team that's not afraid to experiment, pivot, work hard, and have measurable impact on the success of our clients.
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This Application Engineering Chapter Lead role will be part of DAP's Cross Offer Experience family, which enables the onboarding of clients from other offers/platforms. The team this AECL will be supporting owns a portfolio of products that onboard IIG participants onto DAP. We recently partnered with the IIG business to onboard Google plan participants and are currently working on a capability that would allow Plan Sponsors to enable advice as the default investment alternative for plan participants. The products the team supports are largely Lambdas written in Node or Java, though we do have a UI product as well, written in Angular.
What you will do:
- Inspire, grow, and manage your group of developers through peer-coaching, training, and mentoring.
- Practice and execute leadership responsibilities including but not limited to 1:1 with direct reports, performance reviews, ECP reviews, right starts, hiring for teams, recruiting, and retaining strong talent.
- Spend about 60% hands on coding and 40% people management (This is not hard and can change based on team requirements with either side never reaching 0%)
- Work closely with and influence agile teams, product owners, stakeholders, and DAP product families to ensure we deliver world-class advice features and capabilities for our clients.
- Advocate and advance chapter standards and best practices in collaboration with another chapter leads and chapters.
- Participate and drive outcomes in department level initiatives and OKRs through family metrics, ziggurats, sourcing and so on.
- You care about developing and growing people to bring out the best in them.
- You are experienced in leading, coaching, and mentoring development teams with a proven track record of delivering software.
- You have solid experience working in a fast paced, agile development environment.
- You have 5+ years of software development experience, in multiple languages / stacks, testing, test automation, continuous delivery, deployment tools and pipelines.
- You are interested in new trends in software development and technologies.
- A passion for building software is required.
- Experience with AWS, specifically lambdas written in NodeJS, Java
- Experience building modern UIs using Angular 9 and TypeScript
- Experience with bitbucket, bamboo CI/CD pipeline tools
- Problem-solver, and a player coach mentality is highly desirable.
- Experience in coaching (formal/informal)
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.