Job Description

About Vanguard 

Vanguard Australia has been helping investors achieve their long-term financial goals for over 30 years. Serving institutional and individual clients, and financial advisers, we offer investment solutions that are low-cost,diversifiedand robust through time. 

With more than AUD $10 trillion in assets under management Vanguard is one of the world’s largest global investment management companies. In Australia we partner with institutional clients, financialadvisersand 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. 

 About thePersonal InvestorClient PlatformTeam

Personal Investor hasestablishedplatform teams that are technically excellent and highly motivated to deliver high-quality platform components and services for other VanguardClient Experienceteams toleverageand build on effectively. 

The Personal Investor native app has a modern, scalable mobile platform and delivery practice that enables Journey teams toefficiently and autonomously deliver great native mobile experiencesfor Vanguard clients. 

Personal Investor has a mature,healthyand scalable D2C digital platform that makes delivering client experiences and business outcomes simple and efficient.  

Our Team & Opportunity  

The Engineer Manager, the Client Platform leads the engineering teams creating andmaintainingthe platforms that power the Personal Investor digital experiences.

You contribute to a knowledge driven workplace culture, being curious about the world around you, finding new ways to explore and bring new thinking and practises to embed within the team. You have open mindset towards people,technologyand processes.

You work in a close partnership with various product teams and enable ourClientexperience team to deliver continuous,stableand secure features to our clients.

This role will lead the following roles:  

• Application Engineers 

• Technical Lead 

• Consulting application engineers  

Core Responsibilities

• Anticipate needs of engineering teams and create strategic initiatives to ensure the platform team is ready for future.

• Work closely with product teams and Client experience engineers to understand the need and translate that into technical roadmap

• Own execution & delivery on your engineering team and help the team balance new feature work with tech debt and platform investment.

• Drive the continuous improvement of processes and ways of work to improve team capacity & capability

• Client platform team will be distributed between Australia andIndia(outsourcing partner). We encourage culture of close collaboration &good communicationacrosstime zones

Skills required to be successful:

• Solid engineering background that has kept pace withnew technologiesand strong understanding of Web and mobile systems in distributed cloud environment (AWS).

• Own the code - help lead system & technical design, ensure code meets the highest standard of quality & maintainability.

• Strong knowledge of mobile app and web development frameworks, tools and languages including react native, typescript, react, restful API design, Automated testing and more.

• Strong in software architecture and design patterns with particular focus on microservices andmicro frontends

This role will suit someone who has come from a strong tech leadership background and willing to take on responsibilities as a people leader 

Why Vanguard?  

At Vanguard we are all about 3C’s, Client, Crew and Community. We believe in investing in our crew by providing them career coaching and support. We have a Cloud Academy which helps building required technical acumen. We facilitateknowledge sharing through events hosted by the cloud guild. We believe in “Passing it forward” which helps our crew to give back to community. We run a yearly business acumen series to build investment acumen within our crew. Wetruly believein innovation, every year we host a Hackathon event where the crew can bring their innovation ideas to life and present it to senior leadership. We also understand that life outside of work matters, so while we work hard, we are also known for a culture that helps support our crew with work/life balance.  

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 employeesare 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.