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Investment Systems Application Engineer - III

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Skills

Regression Testing
FOCUS
Auditing
UI
Instrumentation
Software Development Methodology
Production Support
Root Cause Analysis
Information Security
Software Engineering
Quality Assurance
Wealth Management
Python
Java
Automated Testing
Taxes
Trading
Data Quality
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services
Financial Software
Analytics
Microservices
Debugging
Workflow
Testing
Systems Design
VPI
Finance
Collaboration

Summary

Core Responsibilities

Test Engineering & Automation Frameworks

Design and build automated testing frameworks for backend services, data pipelines, and end-to-end investment workflows
Develop regression testing, scenario validation, and deterministic validation suites for portfolio calculations, tax logic, and trading workflows
Create reusable testing tools, harnesses, and datasets (e.g., golden datasets, synthetic data generation)
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation

Controls & Validation (Investment Systems Focus)

Implement controls-by-design to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of investment workflows
Build validation layers that detect data anomalies, workflow breaks, and calculation discrepancies
Ensure traceability and reproducibility of results to meet audit and regulatory expectations
Support development of validation frameworks for portfolio construction, tax-loss harvesting, and analytics pipelines

Auxiliary Development (Backend / Data / Full-Stack Support)

Contribute to backend services or data pipelines to enable testability, observability, and validation hooks
Develop supporting APIs, utilities, or UI components that aid in testing, debugging, and workflow validation
Improve system instrumentation to enable better monitoring and validation

Cloud & Engineering Practices (AWS)

Build and run validation frameworks on AWS using scalable, cloud-native patterns
Integrate testing tools into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Contribute to observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to support validation and issue diagnosis

SDLC & Production Support

Participate in design, code, and test reviews to ensure quality is built in early
Support defect identification, triage, and root cause analysis
Contribute to production validation, reconciliation checks, and post-release verification
Ensure solutions comply with information security and technology policies

Experience Required

5+ years of experience in software engineering, test engineering, or platform engineering within investment, wealth management, or financial systems
Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or Java
Experience building automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
Solid understanding of investment domain concepts (portfolios, positions, transactions, tax lots, trading lifecycle, or analytics workflows)
Experience working with data-intensive systems and validating data quality and accuracy
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Preferred

Experience implementing controls, validation frameworks, or reconciliation processes in financial systems
Exposure to model validation, analytics validation, or calculation verification workflows
Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
Familiarity with observability tools and debugging complex production systems

What Success Looks Like

You build robust automated validation frameworks that significantly reduce production defects
You improve confidence in investment workflows by ensuring correctness and reproducibility
You embed testing and control mechanisms directly into system design and delivery pipelines
You act as a quality multiplier-raising engineering standards across the VPI platform

Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is 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.

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Position Id: 24382704
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