Job Description

Create the products that are changing an industry

We never stop working to make investing simpler and more successful for our clients. By promoting new ways of working, youll optimize products and keep our client experience improving at an accelerated pace. Brokerage is at the core of Vanguards mission to give investors the best chance of investment success. Through our retail brokerage offer, clients have access to products and services that help them to achieve their investment goals. Not only does the self-directed client base rely on the Retail Brokerage Platform, Vanguards advice technology also is dependent on a modern, scalable set of brokerage capabilities. The Brokerage Senior Tech Lead is a critical role that 1) manages the Technical Leads across the trading product teams, 2) leads the architecture and delivery of brokerage products, and 3) partners with a Senior Product Owner in building out an integrated business and technology roadmap.

Requirements

Core Responsibilities

* Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
* Provides the most senior level IT technical lead and architecture 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.
* Leads and ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Provides development and architectural options and approves the team's technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security. Provides production support for products..
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
* Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 Factors

* Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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.