Platform Architect, Personalized Indexing Technology

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Lead the definition and evolution of application and platform architecture aligned with VPI business strategy product roadmaps and Vanguard technology standards.

• Drive key architectural decisions for cloudnative systems balancing scalability resiliency security and cost.

• Develop and review architecture and design documentation for new capabilities and platform enhancements.

• Partner closely with product owners engineering teams and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet functional and nonfunctional requirements.

HandsOn Engineering & Delivery

• Act as a handson individual contributor designing and building solutions across the VPI platform.

• Develop cloudnative services on AWS including microservices APIs and supporting infrastructure.

• Write productionquality code primarily in Java and Python with a strong focus on maintainability and performance.

• Contribute to data engineering and platform integration efforts supporting investment workflows analytics and operational processes.

• Help modernize and evolve existing systems while maintaining stability of critical production workloads.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure using AWS including containerized workloads and Kubernetes.

• Build and operate microservices architectures leveraging messaging caching and asynchronous processing patterns.

• Partner with teams on infrastructure automation CI/CD pipelines observability and operational excellence.

• Identify and resolve moderately complex production and platform issues assessing risks and driving pragmatic solutions.

Collaboration & Vendor Evaluation

• Consult with other technology and product teams across Vanguard to ensure alignment and reuse where appropriate.

• Lead and participate in build vs. buy evaluations including assessment of vendors tools and platforms.

• Provide technical guidance during vendor onboarding integrations and proofofconcept efforts.

Additional Responsibilities

• Participate in special initiatives supporting the growth and scalability of the VPI business.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices standards and platform reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Strong engineering background with experience building investment platforms financial systems or largescale distributed systems. 8 years experience with Computer science or related degree.

• Demonstrated experience as a handson architect or senior engineer delivering production systems.

• Proficiency in Java and Python.

• Experience designing and building cloudnative architectures on AWS.

• Solid understanding of microservices architectures including messaging caching and asynchronous processing.

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerbased platforms.

• Working knowledge of data engineering concepts and dataintensive systems.

• Ability to operate effectively as an independent contributor while collaborating across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with direct indexing portfolio management taxloss harvesting or investment operations platforms.

• Familiarity with highvolume highavailability financial systems.

• Experience modernizing legacy platforms into cloudnative architectures.

• Strong understanding of operational concerns such as resiliency monitoring security and cost optimization.

What Success Looks Like

• You are deeply engaged in building and evolving the VPI platform not just advising.

• You help shape architectural direction while still contributing code.

• You move fluidly between infrastructure application development and businessdriven priorities.

• You enable VPI to scale safely and efficiently as the business continues to grow.

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.