Senior Technical Lead

4 weeks ago

Philadelphia, United States Vanguard Full time

Are you a highly skilled, self-motivated and passionate technical leader who’s looking for their next exciting opportunity?  Do you live in Philadelphia and want to work in the city?  Are you ready to work on solutions that will change the way the world invests?  If this sounds like you, we should talk.

You’ll be joining a team who is a key player for our modernization goals and owns a full stack portfolio of applications.  We embrace experimentation and encourage out of the box thinking, creativity and feedback from our business to ensure we are delivering value.  You will have a unique opportunity to learn new technology, build your investment acumen and shape the future of Advice at Vanguard.

In this role, you will:

  • Get cool team swag to represent your team.  Yes, we have swag.
  • Brainstorm innovative solutions to challenging problems with your teammates in a modern, stylish studio in the heart of downtown Philly.
  • Set the technical vision and direction for the team as we refactor PAS systems to the cloud
  • Grow the technical skillset of the team by coaching, inspiring and driving your team members to improve each day
  • Be a trusted partner to our business and internal stakeholders.  Working closely with them to understand the problems they face and translating them into technical solutions the team can deliver
  • As a technical leader on an agile team, you’ll work within the team to break down problems into epics and user stories during backlog grooming and sprint planning

Core Responsibilities

  • Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provide technical expertise and complete sophisticated development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
  • Ensure the viability of IT work. Recommend development options and approves the team's technical work. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
  • Identify potential solutions and approve 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 partners 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 solid understanding 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 built by IT team members. Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
  • Find 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 stay in sync with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verify that work meet requirements.
  • Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Technology Skillset:

  • Senior experience with 2 or more of the following languages or frameworks
    • Angular
    • JavaScript / TypeScript
    • Java REST Services – Spring, Jersey
    • Python
    • SQL
    • Test Automation Frameworks – NodesJS, Jasmine, Junit, Cucumber

  • Senior experience with 2 more of the following AWS services / concepts
    • DynamoDB
    • IAM Roles / Permissions
    • Lambda
    • SQS/SNS
    • S3

  • Strong familiarity and experience with DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines
    • Git
    • Cucumber
    • Jenkins/Bamboo
    • Jira
    • Bitbucket
    • Spring Suite

Bonus Points:

  • AWS certification in AWS Developer, Architect or DevOps
  • Working knowledge of DB2 and legacy relational database technologies, as well as navigating Java and UI's in JSP, etc. for understanding current state as needed.
  • Comfortable with working through uncertainty and ambiguity.
  • Skilled in communicating technical information with both technical and non-technical peers.
  • Hands on.  Persistent.  Creative.  You know how to get things done.

What it Takes:

  • 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.

Special Factors

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.

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