The Wealth Management business line strives to build on Vanguard's legacy to revolutionize the Wealth Management industry, be a trusted partner to our most profitable clients and their families, and give them the best long term outcomes. The Wealth Management offer is designed to meet these clients' complex wealth management and estate planning needs, so they can leave a legacy that fulfills their purpose in the world.
In this exciting opportunity as a Full Stack Technical Lead in the Personal Investor sub-division, you will guide a team to deliver solutions which drive desired business outcomes within the context of building APIs as part of the Wealth Management initiative to introduce a new, modernized recordkeeping platform for our Personal Trust business line.
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Additional Information
- Work on a Product Ownership team alongside the Personal Advisor Wealth Management business as well as the senior architect and other senior technical leaders
- Providing senior-level expertise for developing web applications and applying Site Reliability Engineering practices
- Using Continuous Delivery pipeline and AWS technologies
- Developing automated tests for functional, performance, and security testing using TDD methodology
- Providing thought leadership at the team and program level
- Communicating technical information with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Providing oversight and mentoring to the IT team
- Senior level experience with Java, JavaScript, Python
- Methodologies - TDD, OOP or OOD, Functional Programming, Design Patterns, Lean, Agile (Scrum, Kanban)
- Cloud - AWS (preferred)
- Architecture - Rest (Micro services), API Economy, Lambdas, DynamoDB, S3
- Frameworks - Spring, Spring Boot, Jersey/REST
- Testing - JUnit, TDD using Cucumber, PyTest, Mock Frameworks - Mockito, Mimic
- Proficiency with DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines (Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, Sonar, Github)
- Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provide technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
- Ensure the viability of IT deliverables. Recommend development options and approve the team's technical deliverables. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
- Identify potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to IT experts. 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. Anticipate technology problems and prevents them.
- Communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas.
- 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.
- Review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. 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.
- Thoroughly understand and comply with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verify that deliverables meet requirements.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
- Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience. 5+ years of technical experience. Demonstrated experience as a leader on an IT team.
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.