Senior Full Stack Engineer - Java and AWS

30 Sep 2024

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Vanguard plans to open a new office in the Dallas-Fort Worth region in early 2022. In alignment with Vanguard's dedication to making advice more accessible and affordable for investors, the new location will be dedicated to supporting all aspects of our growing advice businesses. This location will supplement Vanguard's hardworking roster of advisors and advice-focused crew and offer leadership and development opportunities that continue to enable crew to best support our clients. As one of the first IT crew to join the Dallas team, you'll have a unique opportunity to help lay the groundwork for this exciting expansion.

Bring invention to investing

Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation are celebrated and rewarded, where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest and most trusted financial services company in the world. Computerworld magazine named in its 100 Best Places to Work in IT !

Are you curious about making a career move or looking for a new opportunity to learn and grow?

Advice is a major priority of our company strategy in serving our clients, and Vanguard wants to change the way the world invests. The demand for advice will only grow, especially as investors age and their investment needs become more complex.

Come join us as we continue building out the Personal Advisor Services Retail Advice offering with engineers skilled in AWS, Java, and Angular in a highly collaborative, cross-team atmosphere working to be a little more awesome every day.

The Advice Technology program will advance Retail's strategic priorities of bringing the benefit of advice to millions, developing a world-class client experience, and scaling and modernizing infrastructure. The teams on this work are highly agile and empowered to analyze, define, and prioritize where we can make the biggest impact to enable the Advice platform while preparing us to support growth of Advice to millions.

Create the products that are changing the industry:

We are looking for strong Engineers to build out an Advice API Platform in AWS to spread our trusted advice even more broadly. Engineers will work with AWS, Java, Apigee, and Angular to build out this exciting new Advice offer. The team is highly collaborative, focuses on quality and working to just be a little more awesome every day. Don't delay, apply today!

You will join a team who demonstrates business and technical acumen and applies an analytical and agile approach to turn business outcomes into technology capabilities supporting Advice.
  • A recognized Thought Leader with excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to create clarity and certainty when there is architecture ambiguity; communicate to all stakeholders at varying levels within the Organization.
  • Ability to weave "Lean", DevOPs concepts into the fabric of our culture.
  • Partner with, influence Senior IT Leaders on the direction of NGA, Cloud, and Data Center Transformation Programs.
  • Research Emerging Technologies, and if applicable, lead the buildout of POC's that demonstrate the potential relevance in Retail Systems.
  • Facilitates and advices on Enterprise level delivery and design of reusable artifacts and API interface specifications (XSD/WSDL/WADL/Swagger/OpenAPI/YAML) and API security standards and implementation (Oauth, OpenId)
  • Ability to learn and apply the knowledge of Amazon Services: Amazon API Gateway, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, SNS, Lambda, AWS RDS (DynamoDB, Postgres, Aurora), CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
  • A deep intellectual curiosity and learning agility; stays on the forefront of business and technology solutions, especially API and microservice design, application security, and Front-End / UI development

What it takes:
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
  • Five years of software development experience using Java technical stack building well-constructed services with high availability and resilience.
  • Experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST and Microservices
  • Experience with AWS Cloud Development (ECS, DynamoDB, EC2) and Cloud engineering best practices is required.
  • Experience with AWS Monitoring tools (Cloudability or Cloud Health or similar) is highly desired.
  • Demonstrated experience in technical leadership and acting as a mentor and coach for developers on the team.
  • Strong analysis skills.
  • Experience or ability to quickly learn AWS (S3, DynamoDB, EMR, EC2, Storage Gateway, IAM, Streams)
  • Experience using CI/CD pipeline tools like Bamboo, Jenkins.

Vanguard is not offering sponsorship for these positions.

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.

  • ID: #20539216
  • State: Texas Dallas / fort worth 75201 Dallas / fort worth USA
  • City: Dallas / fort worth
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-09-30
  • Deadline: 2021-11-27
  • Category: Systems/networking