Job Description

Engineering Manager Role Summary - AWMT Investment Performance (Portfolio Services and Insights Product Family)

Lead the Investment Performance Modernization initiative in AWMT, owning delivery, engineering quality, and team leadership while staying hands-on with AWS data technologies.

Key Expectations

• Drive Mainframe modernization to AWS (Glue, PySpark, Redshift)

• Stay hands-on in Python/PySpark and technical design decisions

• Own end-to-end delivery, risks, and stakeholder alignment

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team

• Ensure scalable, reliable, and high-quality data solutions

Preferred

• Modernization / cloud migration experience

• Strong AWS background

• Wealth Management/ Investment performance / financial domain exposure (Nice to have)

Engineering Manager Role Summary – T3 (Testing & Engineering Excellence)

Lead the T3 team’s testing and engineering excellence mission in AWMT, owning testing strategy, shared quality platforms, and team leadership while operating as a product owner for engineering quality across the organization.

Key Expectations

• Define and evolve testing strategy across unit, API, integration, E2E, performance, and resilience testing

• Act as product owner for shared testing and quality capabilities, owning vision, roadmap, and outcomes

• Support and mature a suite of common testing tools and frameworks used across AWMT

• Drive engineering excellence through clear quality standards, metrics, and feedback loops

• Partner with product, SRE, and architecture leaders to improve product health and release confidence

• Lead, coach, and develop a high‑performing engineering team

Preferred

• Experience leading shared platforms or enablement teams

• Strong background in test automation and CI/CD integration

• Systems‑level thinking about quality, risk, and delivery tradeoffs

• Experience influencing quality outcomes without direct authority

Engineering Manager Role Summary – Spectra (Money Movement)

Lead Spectra's mission to enable advised clients to access their money when they need it, owning customer-facing transfer experiences and AWS-based microservices (~15,000 requests, $400M+ monthly) while expanding functionality in alignment with client input and driving AI adoption across a full-stack team.

Key Expectations

• Manage and deliver the next generation of Advice Money Movement

• Champion AI and emerging tech adoption by creating space for experimentation and helping the team operationalize learnings

• Drive engineering excellence through clear quality standards, metrics, and feedback loops

• Coordinate with upstream and downstream money movement teams (STW, CM5, ET3) and peer EMs to ensure seamless orchestration across complex transfer flows

• Partner with Technical Lead and Product Manager to shape product vision, technical strategy, and roadmap while balancing customer needs with technical sustainability

• Lead, coach, and develop a high‑performing engineering team

Preferred

• Track record embedding emerging technologies into team workflows with measurable outcomes

• Strong technical credibility across frontend and backend development using Node/Java/Angular

• Systems‑level thinking about quality, risk, and delivery tradeoffs

• Experience influencing quality outcomes without direct authority

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

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.