- SALARY:NONE
- Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
The Institutional Full-Service Transformation program is a significant, multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative focused on modernizing the experience for our participants and plan sponsors. As part of this effort, we are assembling full-stack teams to transition our applications to a cloud-based platform.
In line with our commitment to excellence, we are now looking for dedicated Technical Leads to join our team. This role will play a crucial part in ensuring the development of top-notch applications that consistently meet the needs and expectations of our clients.
Our Tech leads provide expert level IT technical lead services, including the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools.
In this role, you will
- Provide technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
- Ensure the viability of IT deliverables, recommending development options and approving the teams technical deliverables as well as conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
- Identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members, elevating complex technical issues to IT experts. Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner, researching issues and performing root cause analysis as well as anticipate technology problems and prevent them.
- Communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influence others on ideas.
- Maintain a current and solid understanding of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentor IT staff and identify training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members.
- Review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
- Find opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
- Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participate as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Present technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
What it takes
- Experience with technical leaders for end-to-end development (UI, services, testing and monitoring).
- AWS Cloud Experience.
- Experience with the following Java, Angular, Control-M, IBM MQ, DB2 Pure scale.
- Mainframe/COBOL is a plus during the transition.
- Experience with Atlassian tool suite (Confluence, Jira, Bamboo).
- A growth mindset with the ability to try new things and a desire to modernize current technology.
- Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of proven experience in full stack development.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Specializations that will make an impact
- AWS certifications,
- Prior experience working with third party vendors.
- Experience modernizing UI and data applications.
- Full-Service experience
Special Factors
Sponsorship
About Vanguard
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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 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.