Core Responsibilities
1. Leads, builds, and coaches high performing teams in the delivery of technology-related products or projects, ensuring team actions are aligned with project and business goals. May instruct or coach other professionals.
2. Leads planning, team learning, and adaptation of processes to ensure the quality of team solutions.
3. Enables a continuous learning environment, identifying ways to strengthen the team's understanding of Agile/Scrum concepts and principles as they relate to technical capabilities.
4. Builds and applies methodology that supports the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into technology-related product development.
5. Recommends to the product owner and management in the definition and prioritization of technology-related outcomes. Identifies trade-offs between short and long term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and product owner.
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6. Ensures the application of agile frameworks to the development process to increase effectiveness of technology-related product development or architecture.
7. Leads daily scrum meetings, iteration reviews, and maintains backlogs.
8. Removes roadblocks to technology-related product development or architecture. Applies learnings to other development projects.
9. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
10. End to end design, development, and support of TCA data infrastructure product.
11. Build a resilient, modular, and scalable data infrastructure product that will span regions and assets.
12. Partner with quant researchers, product owner, and consultant (?) to gather requirements.
13. Support a team of senior developers and data engineers.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Computer Science or Engineering experience preferred. Graduate degree preferred.
- Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational technology projects preferred. Financial Services and technical experience preferred.
- Scrum/Agile Certification strongly preferred.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience with strong technical knowledge in Python.
- Previous experience in developing TCA data products.
- Prior experience working with OneTick/KDB.
- Strong understanding of TCA concepts and market data structure.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals, and meet deadlines.
- Prior experience working with quant researchers is preferable.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Strong communication skills with a demonstrable ability to present & grasp complex concepts in a multicultural environment.
- Proficiency in Python programming
- Strong expertise in SQL, Presto, HIVE, and Spark
- Experience with P ython libraries for data manipulation and analysis, such as Pandas, Polars and NumPy
- Extensive experience with key AWS services/components including EMR, Lambda, Glue ETL, Step Functions, S3, ECS, Kinesis, IAM, RDS PostgreSQL, Dynamodb, Timeseries database, CloudWatch Events/Event Bridge, Athena, SNS, SQS, and VPC
- Experience with data pipelines, ETL processes, and data warehousing
- Experience with OneTick/KDB
- Good understanding of source control, unit testing, test-driven development, and CI/CD
- Knowledge of data warehousing solutions like Amazon Redshift
- Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
- Skills in designing and implementing data models, including normalization, denormalization, and schema design
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot data issues
- Knowledge of trading and investment data
- Proficiency in data visualization tools and ability to create visual representations of data, particularly using Tableau is a plus
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.
Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Vanguard's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is central to our ability to deliver on our mission. We aspire to create a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and diverse-one that enables our employees, whom we call crew, to thrive and bring their best selves to work every day on behalf of our clients.
Cultivating DEI lifts our entire organization, and everyone shares accountability for our progress-from our senior leaders who lay the foundation and set the example for inclusive behaviors to crew who are growing in their personal DEI learning experiences.
Together, we're on a mission. We are fueled by the value of diverse voices and connected through friendships and a culture of care-for our clients, our communities, and each other.
Vanguard's DEI journey has no finish line. Our commitment is enduring, and we remain focused on the path ahead. To learn more about Vanguard goals and progress toward DEI, download our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report .
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.