Application Engineer

About Vanguard

More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners.

Today, Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 25 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals

Our Team & Opportunity

The Investment Management Systems team services all of our Investment Management Group, consisting of the Equity Investment Group, Fixed Income Investment Group, Capital Markets, Investment Strategy Group, as well as external clients and vendors throughout the Asia-Pac region.

The Desk Developer team in Australia is responsible for providing software development and support services for critical systems that support our trading desks .

Core Accountabilities

• Refactor and migrate existing python based solutions to AWS. This will also include integration with existing IT systems owned by other teams.

• Develop new solutions for trading desks to assist them with their job

• Closely work with global partners to design solutions, ensuring that we are aligned to the architectural direction of the platform.

• Business outcome focus using CI/CD and DevSecOps principles.

• Provide BAU and production support.

• Thoroughly understands and complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established milestones

• Perform Automation testing and requirements solicitation when required .

• Translate requirements to stories to be placed on the backlog

Key Technical Skills

• AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, SNS , SQS , IAM )

• Python

• Intermediate SQL

Specialization that will make an impact:

• React Web

• Django

• Test automation and test-driven development practices and frameworks - mutation testing, functional testing (JUnit, Cucumber), mock frameworks (Mockito, etc.), contract testing

• Familiarity with DevSecOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines - github , github actions, Jira, Confluence .

• Experience with API management platforms, design standards, patterns and best practices is a plus

More about you

You'll bring outstanding stakeholder engagement skills, along with exceptional communication skills. You'll have experience in a global environment with a demonstrated ability in driving results and efficiently contributing to innovative customer solutions. You understand targets and timelines and have an ability to transform ambiguity into solutions and business outcome through collaboration and creativity. You'll bring demonstrated similar development experience, ideally within a similar organisation or consultancy, and also experience working in an agile process and SCRUM environment.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Melbourne, Australia

Job ID: Vanguard-166999

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-05-16T12:58:59