Senior Technical Lead – Enterprise Design System

About the Team

The design system is Vanguards comprehensive design ecosystem which includes:

• A coded reusable UI component library
• Design and content guidelines
• A crossplatform design token system
• A design UI kit and supporting tooling for product teams

The design system enables teams across the company to build accessible inclusive and consistent digital experiences. As a Senior Technical Lead you will play a critical role in its modernization expansion and architectural evolution.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to ensure the design systems architecture is modern scalable accessible and aligned with industry best practices.
• Define and drive the futurestate technical vision including component architecture design tokens accessibility standards and platformaligned tooling.
• Lead major contributions to the next evolution of the system improving discoverability reducing duplication and strengthening consistency across component libraries.
• Shape contribution and governance models that support distributed development and shared quality standards across teams.
• Identify modernization opportunities and support the creation of reusable patterns reference architectures and frameworks used enterprisewide.
• Guide and review complex engineering solutions resolve technical blockers and uphold high standards for code quality and documentation.
• Partner closely with the mobile designsystem team to ensure alignment across web and mobile platforms.
• Lead daytoday technical execution ensuring delivery of highquality maintainable and accessible components and tooling.
• Collaborate with product and design partners to shape roadmaps and support broader modernization goals.
• Mentor engineers promote engineering excellence and foster a learningfocused and inclusive team culture.
• Explore emerging technologies and help drive continuous improvements in accessibility automation developer experience and engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Deep proficiency in modern web development (TypeScript HTML SCSS) and componentdriven architecture.
• Significant experience building or maintaining enterprisescale design systems or component libraries.
• Strong experience with modern UI frameworks (Lit preferred; React Angular Vue Svelte or Stencil acceptable).
• Proven ability to lead architectural decisions establish engineering standards and drive modernization initiatives.
• Experience with design tokens Storybook automated testing CI/CD pipelines and WCAGaligned accessibility practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence without authority and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to largescale or multiplatform design systems.
• Familiarity with modernization principles and reference architecture patterns.
• Experience with DevOps SRE practices or automated quality pipelines.
• Experience supporting design systems across web mobile and/or designtool ecosystems.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

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.