Advice Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

What You'll Do:

• Leverage Your Technical Expertise: Use your advanced skills in Frontend UI development with Angular, RxJS, and Node.js to drive business success. Experience with AWS technologies like S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda is highly beneficial.
• Innovate and Maintain: Apply your knowledge to both new and existing services, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently.
• Lead and Develop: Mentor and guide engineers, fostering their growth and enhancing the team's overall capabilities. Lead technical discussions and decision-making processes to ensure best practices are followed.
• Apply AI to Accelerate Engineering Excellence: Apply AI-enabled tools and practices to enhance developer productivity, code quality, and testing outcomes, accelerating delivery without compromising engineering standards.
• Strategize and Execute: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical strategies and roadmaps. Ensure alignment with business goals and drive the execution of key projects. Work closely with agile teams and DAP product families to ensure we deliver world-class advice features for our clients.

• Continuous Learning: Embrace the opportunity to master new technologies and frameworks that are integral to Vanguard applications.
• AI-Forward Engineering Culture: Be part of a team that actively experiments with and adopts AI tools to improve how we build, test, and operate software, turning emerging capabilities into real engineering leverage, not hype.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside diverse product teams, building both business and technical acumen across various areas.
• Career Growth: Your contributions will not only propel our business forward but also significantly enhance your professional development.
• Impactful Leadership: Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of financial technology by leading a team of talented engineers.

• Provides expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provides technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team's technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Responds to and resolves technical issues in a timely manner. Researches issues and performs root cause analysis. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them.
• Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.
• Maintains a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff and identifies training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members.
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
• Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.