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.
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