Application Engineer Chapter Lead

Are you passionate about creating strategies to reduce risk and prevent redundancy?  Are you looking for a role where you have the ability to flex both your technical and people management skills?  Then this opportunity may be for you!  The Personal Investor Technology space is hiring an Application Engineer Chapter Lead to manage and develop a team and provide Sr. level software and application development services.  This position will give you the chance to influence the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools. This role is about 50% hands on development and 50% people management.

In this role, you will:

• Hire, evaluate, and supervise crew. Provide guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Set performance standards, review performance, and make informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Work with product leaders and functional leads to ensure adequate development resources are in place in alignment with strategic goals.
• Provide expert level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases. Integrate third party products. Ensure that expected application performance levels are achieved.
• Identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure consistency of the knowledge and skills, sharing best practices and common challenges in their area and others. Maintain current knowledge of IT development methodology, and technical standards. Mentor IT staff as new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members.
• Communicate with key stakeholder on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas. Provides realistic task and cost estimates.
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identify 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:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Specializations that will make an impact:

• Angular expertise
• UI experience
• AWS Lambda
• Python experience
• Willingness to learn API technologies

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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 can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve 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. Let’s make it count.

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, 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.