Job Description

In this role, you will:

* Bring solutions to life by operationalizing models and delivering insights to the business (AKA Connecting the Last Mile)

* Create more responsive approaches to building software, including development, design, implementation and maintenance

* Provide expert IT technical lead services, including the direction of other Leads as well as leading the evaluation and selection of new technologies while working closely with data scientists and data engineers on NWOW lab teams that work across nearly all Vanguard lines of business (e.g. RIG, IIG, FAS) to build AI and Data products

* Stay up to date on development methodology, architecture design and technical standards, and translate it into effective business and client solutions through research and by partnering with divisional and CTO architects

Where integrity meets innovation

From true product ownership and continuous delivery to lean management and agile approaches, youll pioneer new methods to IT delivery at Vanguard. Were trailblazers for the industry so, as Technical Lead III, youll have an impact that reaches far beyond your own team. Technical know-how is essential, but youll also need an infectious enthusiasm for new ways of working, strong analysis and problem-solving skills and a good grounding in the financial services industry. Get ready to make an impact, as you build your own profile and experience.

What it takes

* Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, MIS, ITS, Data Science or equivalent training and experience.

* Proficient with Python, R, Java, and other important ML and analytics languages (e.g. R, Scala)

* Passion for the application of Data Science / AI / ML to solve problems

* Expert level of experience building, deploying and scaling full-stack applications in AWS

Nice to have

* Masters degree

* Experience with scalable data extraction tools (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB)

* Experience with Scala, Spark, Java and/or SAS

Additional Details:

Must be able to work across a large number of Product Owners and Scrum Masters, to learn multiple lines of business's needs, and to apply consistent solutions and support across.

Core Responsibilities

1\. Provides the most senior level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provides technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.

2\. Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development and architectural options and approves the team's technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security. Provides production support for products..

3\. Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Responds to and resolves technical issues in a timely manner. Researches issues and performs root cause analysis. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them. Resolves potential technology problems implemented by less experience staff before they cause an issue.

4\. Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.

5\. Maintains a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff and identifies training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members. Learns, and applies new technology quickly, and is well versed on the latest technologies and tools supporting software development in the industry. Assists with the creation of strategic product roadmaps.

6\. Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.

7\. Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.

8\. Develops code and test artifacts that reuse subroutines or objects, is well structured, backed by automated tests, includes sufficient comments and is easy to maintain. Writes programs, appropriate test artifacts, ad hoc queries, and reports. Employs contemporary software development techniques to ensure tests are implemented in a way that supports automation.

9\. Amplifies the productivity of entire team through collaboration, and the implementation of technology frameworks. Learns and applies new technology quickly, and is well versed on the latest technologies and tools supporting software development in the industry. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them. Resolves potential technology problems implemented by less experience staff before they cause an issue.

10\. Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements. Works across organizational lines to improve both IT and Information Security policies and procedures.

11\. Maintains a broad understanding of the roles of front, middle and back office, and designs systems to enable efficient business processes while maintaining necessary controls. Maintains a broad understanding of the roles of external partners and designs systems to enable efficient business processes while maintaining necessary controls.

12\. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

* Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years of development experience.

* Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Special Factor:

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Additional Details:

Redefine the possibilities of IT

Doing the right thing for investors means being able to respond to their changing needs, expertly and with relevant technology. To keep pace with dynamic markets, regulations and customer demands, IT systems need to evolve and adapt accordingly. Together well build a platform of APIs and apps powered by micro services and AI/ML models deployed on the cloud. This will allow Vanguard to offer clients advice and perspectives across the globe in a more agile and responsive way. As a Technical Lead, youll make sure these new advances count.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, were changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesnt 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 thats how weve 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. Lets make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguards 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 Vanguards 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 Vanguards 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.