Technical Lead - Java/AWS

30 Sep 2024

Vacancy expired!

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.

In This Role You Will

As a technical lead in Personal Advisor Services, you'll help us build and evolve our advice capabilities to serve the needs of our advisors and our investors. You'll partner to lead a product team, driving towards disrupting the world of advice through innovative solutions. You will join and help drive our journey as we are progressing through of modernizing and further building out our platforms for cloud-native solutions based on microservices, micro-front ends, and beyond. You be a key enabler of building out a team in our Dallas location, that will partner with other established Personal Advisor Services teams and our Enterprise Advice division to provide best in class solutions for our advisors and clients.

Qualifications:
  • Expertise with Java, Spring Boot, REST and Microservice development and principles.
  • Experience with front-end client side development, frameworks, and patterns (such as JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Angular or other modern framework).
  • AWS Cloud Development (ECS, EC2, DynamoDB) and Cloud engineering standard methodologies.
  • Experience or ability to quickly learn additional AWS technologies (including but not limited to S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Streams, SNS/SQS, Lambda, EMR, Storage Gateway, IAM).
  • Experience using CI/CD pipeline tools like Bamboo, Jenkins.
  • Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, with a strong commitment to coaching and mentoring developers on the team.
  • Strong analysis and software design skills.
  • Ability to inspire change and demonstration of a growth mindset
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience
  • Five+ years of software development experience and 1+ years as a technical lead

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.