Technical Lead

**About Vanguard**

Vanguard Australia has been helping investors achieve their long-term financial goals for over 20 years. Serving institutional and individual clients, and financial advisers, we offer investment solutions that are low-cost, diversified and robust through time.

With more than AUD $11 trillion in assets under management Vanguard is one of the world’s largest global investment management companies. In Australia we partner with institutional clients, financial advisers and individual investors to offer low-cost investment solutions. Our comprehensive range of managed funds, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and tailored investment solutions are built to support long-term investment success for our clients.

**Our Team & Opportunity**

This is a permanent Technical Lead role in the EIS Data Team. This role is responsible for providing superior technical leadership to Security Reference and Index data management teams in Australia working on a vendor product NeoXam and AWS infrastructure. The role also includes leading modernization projects on Index and Security data management.

**What you will do**

**Core Responsibilities**
- Provides expert level IT investment systems 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.
- Ensures the viability of IT investment systems deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team's technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
- Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems dis‐covered by testers and internal clients. Responds to and re‐solves technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and performs root cause analysis. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Participates in design, code, and test inspections through‐out product life cycle to identify issues. Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
- Maintains a comprehensive understanding of Investment Management business functions. Combines technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to Investment Management business problems.
- Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

**What are we looking for**
- Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
- Business knowledge of investments management or other financial domains
- Expert level hands on experience on AWS technologies (Lambda, S3, Dynamo DB, API Gateway etc.)
- Good understanding of Python/Java or similar programming languages
- Experience working with on prem vendor products preferably NeoXam
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

**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

**How We Work**

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, d