Summary:

Are you interested working full-time to improve developer experience? Would you like to work on fixing problems that developers face every day? Then you should consider the Vanguard's CXD Solutions and Engineering team. We are a team dedicated to making development at Vanguard as delightful as ordering an item from Amazon. We are doing this by automating the internal processes that often slow developers down and giving them a simple to use interface for doing all the common developer tasks in a few keystrokes. The ideal candidate would be strong in:
- JavaScript (NodeJS specifically)
- AWS technologies (especially Lambda and Step Functions)
- DevOps
If this interests you then apply today!

Create the products that are changing an industry

We never stop working to make investing simpler and more successful for our clients. By promoting new ways of building software, you'll optimize products and keep our client experience improving at pace. Your work as a Tech Lead will not only give you true ownership of your products as you capitalize on a Lean Agile approach. It will change the way the world invests.

As a Lead Engineer on Vanguard's Client Experience program, you'll work on a fully dedicated, cross-functional, co-located and durable team given the autonomy required to deliver solutions which fulfill client needs and drive business outcomes within the context of client journeys. The team will operate with enhanced speed and agility to deliver meaningful customer experiences in a rapid build-measure-learn manner.

To provide expert level IT technical lead services, including the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools.

This role will be part of the Client experience (CX) pillar, one of the six strategic pillars that Vanguard is focused on.

http://crewnet.vanguard.com/news/oct/cx_video.html

One of the key themes of our flywheel to create a world-class client experience. CX will focus on driving value in four key areas: improving client experience; driving investor outcomes; developing a new, collaborative way of working; and driving efficiency throughout the company by reducing the difficulties and challenges clients experience as they do business with us. "Digital labs" have been created to address the client experience in areas including asset transfers, the brokerage trading platform, open account and the movement of money from one business segment to another. More labs are being built over time.

This role will be part of the CX Solutions & Engineering (CX S&E) team that will be supporting the "Digital Labs" or "Journey Labs". As a Tech Lead on Vanguard' on the CX S& E team, you will be responsible for -

•Addressing technical issues that are common across the CX lab teams, ensuring solutions are implemented in a fashion that, in the spirit of DevOps, optimize for efficiency across the entire software delivery value stream. The team will operate with enhanced speed and agility to deliver meaningful customer experiences in a rapid build-measure-learn manner.
•Supporting the Experimentation program within CX - understand the Experimentation program in CX, including why teams experiment, and what the right types of experiments are for what scenarios (e.g. A/B testing, MVT testing, Multi-armed bandit testing, etc.). Develop your technical understanding of the SiteSpect tool that we use for experimentation. This includes knowing the ins and the outs of the tool, how to implement experiments using it, and what each of the features does.

Technical Skills:

•Programming experience
•Highly collaborative, a fast learner and willing to work wherever you're needed on the team.
•Able to achieve results against goals linked to key performance indicators.
•Experienced with JavaScript and AWS.
•Experienced with software engineering fundamentals including object-oriented design, data structures, dependency injection, testable code, and algorithms.
•Experienced with software engineering tools, such as VS Code, WebStorm, Git, and others.
•Able to write clean, maintainable code, and read code created by others.
•Quick learner who can learn and develop utilizing a new framework within a single sprint.

What it takes:

•Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
•Extensive software engineering experience
•Strong written and oral communication skills
•Strong, demonstrated analysis and problem-solving skills
•Strong planning and organizational skills
•Ability to implement instrumentation to gather business-specific metrics around consumer usage patterns

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.