Senior Application Engineer

Vanguard
Charlotte, NC
30 Sep 2024

Vacancy expired!

Are you ready to join a new team building world class solutions for trading and pricing technology at Vanguard? Do you get excited about applying the latest tech stack (e.g. AWS Lambda, ECS, Java, Python, Angular, DynamoDB) to improve client experience and to re-imagine existing systems into the cloud?

Why are we hiring?

In today's world client experience and operational excellence are critical to investment trading systems. In this role you will be working with full stack teams developing applications for Trading in Financial Advisor Services. You will have the opportunity to learn how the investment industry does pricing for mutual funds and define the future of how we deliver prices to clients; help build out our Large & Qualified Trade (LT/QT) notification system in the cloud; and support ongoing modernization efforts related to our Trading systems.

If you are looking for a challenge and want hands-on experience with exciting, cloud technologies and AWS services as well as work closely with highly talented IT individuals, business partners to build and increase financial services acumen, this is the job for you.

Here's where you come in

We are looking for a senior developer, passionate about technology to join us in building next generation solutions in the cloud. You will:
  • Help solve the most impactful and complex technical problems facing our teams.
  • Help set the technical vision for the team as we define the future architecture and hands-on coding implementation for various Trading systems.
  • Have the opportunity to help evaluate new frameworks and architecture patterns through proof of concepts to accelerate the team moving forward.
  • Attend industry learning events, local seminars, and self-driven trainings to stay up to date on the latest trends and available solutions to bring back to the team. You will help upskill the department towards adopting cloud technologies by facilitating and participating in knowledge sharing sessions.

Ideal Skillset:
  • Key AWS services/technologies: Lambda, ECS Fargate, IAM, S3, Glue, DynamoDB, RDS, DataSync, CloudFormation
  • Current stack includes: AWS, Java, Spring Boot, Lambda, Python, Angular, DynamoDB, AWS Glue
  • Experience in mainframe development (DB2, Cobol, JCL) with the ability to redesign/transform mainframe processes and data into cloud solutions
  • Excellent Java or similar object oriented language programming experience
  • Hands on. Persistent. Creative. You know how to get things done
  • Comfortable working through uncertainty and ambiguity
  • Skilled in communicating technical information with both technical and non-technical peers
  • Agile & DevOps best practices for continuous delivery and development
  • Experience with TDD/BDD and automated testing tools and frameworks such as Cucumber, Cypress, Jasmine, Postman
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools like Bamboo, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Maven, Jira
  • Exposure to SRE principles and tooling for observability, alerting, chaos engineering, synthetic transactions, resiliency
  • Understanding of security principles and architecture for RESTful microservices and UI's in the cloud

Additional Skills that will make an impact::
  • AWS Certification(s)
  • Deep Python expertise
  • Expert in JavaScript frameworks and tools, e.g. Angular 9, NodeJS, Cypress, Jasmine, TypeScript, ES5/ES6
  • Excellent NoSQL and SQL relational database design and experience

What it takes:
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
  • Software Development 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 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.