Tech Lead – Data Engineer Assets and Cash Flow

Malvern, PA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Vanguard is seeking a Technical Lead that will function as a critical liaison with Finance and Technology teams and will engage with clients across the enterprise. They will set engineering standards demonstrate a strong track record of mentoring and developing junior developers and drive the roadmap for data ingestion transformation and consumption across batch and event-driven pipelines.

Lead Assets and Cashflow Program
Experience leading end-to-end architecture and delivery of data pipelines
Senior level experience delivering serverless data solutions with AWS Lambda Glue and Step Functions
Hands on experience with Apache Iceberg table design and lifecycle
Highly knowledgeable on techniques to maximize performance reliability and observability.

Qualifications

8 years of related data engineering experience with a strong record of leading delivery for production ETL platforms.
5 years building on AWS with deep expertise in Lambda Glue and Step Functions (state machine patterns error handling retries and parallel branches).
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
Handson experience with batch and eventdriven pipelines (e.g. Kinesis/Kafka) S3based data lakes and Glue/Athena/EMR integration.
Solid understanding of lakehouse architecture columnar formats (Parquet) and performance tuning (file sizing predicate pushdown metadata operations).
Familiarity with data quality frameworks lineage/metadata management and governance (IAM Lake Formation encryption at rest/in transit).
Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences and influence crossfunctional decisions.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience; graduate degree preferred.

Preferred Experience

Operating Iceberg with query engines (Athena/Trino/Presto/Spark) and catalog integrations (Glue/HMS).
Experience in financial services or similarly regulated industries.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere 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.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

Lead Assets and Cashflow Program
Experience leading end-to-end architecture and delivery of data pipelines
Senior level experience delivering serverless data solutions with AWS Lambda Glue and Step Functions
Hands on experience with Apache Iceberg table design and lifecycle
Highly knowledgeable on techniques to maximize performance reliability and observability.