• Malvern, Pennsylvania

Malvern, Pennsylvania

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Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Does leveraging modern technical stacks to transform and reimagine a critical data schema for multiple subdivisions sound fascinating? Would you like to have a role as a senior technical SME and provide critical input as we tackle this exciting and ambiguous task? Join us as we evolve the possibilities for our business by building a critical firm admin data domain in the cloud for the FAS Trading product family to serve others across FAS, Finance, and IIG!

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Why are we hiring?

We have formed a Firm Admin product within our FAS Trading product family that is a high business priority to deliver critical client data in a new way. This product will set us up for the needs of FAS into the future, as we move away from legacy systems and tailor our new system to our business needs. This client data is used across FAS, will integrate with the new TA recordkeeping system being built in Finance to replace VAST, and has integrations with IIG as well. The data product will be crucial to an improved operations crew experience and world class client experience for firms who are trading with Vanguard through FAS.

Heres where you come in

In this role as Application Data Engineering III, you will guide the technical direction for a new team developing the future client data model for Trading in Financial Advisor Services. You willhave the opportunity tolearn how the investment industry trades with Vanguard for mutual funds and define the future of how we serve critical data to our clients.

In this role, you will

  • Advise in the technical vision and direction of the team as we define the future data schema, participating in architecture and coding sessions in collaboration with FAST and FAS Trading architects.
  • Immerse yourself in the buildout of a new data model & system, including various APIs to return critical data to our variety of business partners and integrated systems.
  • You will grow the technical skill set of the team by inspiring and driving your team members to improve every day. Your coaching and pairing with the team will be key to improving, doing what is right for the client, the quality of the applications, and encouraging a continuous learning and experimentation culture within the team.
  • You will be encouraged to 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.
  • By sharing your innovative ideas, strong interpersonal skills, and challenging the status quo you will be a strong and trusted partner for our Product Owners and business stakeholders, working closely with them to understand the problems clients face and translate them into technical solutions the team can deliver.

Ideal Skillset that will make an impact

  • Expertise with AWS microservices, SRE and DevOps best practices for continuous delivery, serverless, security architecture, RDS, infrastructure as code. Current languages and services are being finalized but may include AWS Lambda, Python, SQL, REST API, GraphQL, AWS Aurora DB, Attunity/Qlik, S3, Kinesis Data Streams, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, Glue.
  • Sharing your innovative ideas, strong interpersonal skills, and challenging the status quo will have a large impact on our team and the business.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and has the decisiveness to drive outcomes with dynamic requirements.
  • A focus on productive lean agile development, doing what is right for the client, the quality of the applications, and pursuing and encouraging a continuous learning culture within the team toward continuous improvement.

The following expertise will set you apart

  • Experience in AWS Aurora DB and standing up related infrastructure.
  • Experience on a data product, SQL, or data modeling.
  • Experience leveraging Python to build APIs.
  • Experience on a new product and team.
  • Working knowledge of DB2 and legacy relational database technologies, as well as navigating Java and UIs in JSP, etc. for understanding current state as needed.

Qualifications

  • 5+years technical experience, with at least 1-3+yrs of database and/or API development experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • A strong technical background, participated in the technical implementations across a variety of tech stacks backend experience preferred.
  • A growth mindset and ability to go deep on a topic as necessary.
  • The ability to collaborate and communicate across varied technical groups.

Financial Advisor Services (FAS) is one of Vanguards four client-facing business divisions. FAS provides investments, services, education, and research to more than 55,000 advisory teams representing more than $3 trillion in assets across 27 million End Investors. Vanguards financial advisor clients include broker-dealers, asset managers, bank trust departments, registered investment advisors, and insurance companies. In 2022, our FAS Trading teams ensured Advised Client success for 55 million transactions with an absolute value of over $6 Trillion.

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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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

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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 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.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.