Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.

Vanguard’s India Office

Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.

Role Summary

Provides technical leadership for mission-critical liquidity management and cash management platforms supporting Vanguard investment operations. Responsible for architecture, design, engineering quality, operational excellence, mentoring engineers, and driving modernization initiatives.

The role is an Individual Contributor leadership position, not a people manager role. The expectation is to coach, mentor, and elevate the technical capability of the team while remaining hands-on in design and development.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead design and implementation of complex software solutions.

• Serve as the primary technical advisor for the team.

• Drive architecture decisions with architects and senior stakeholders.

• Ensure solutions meet scalability, resiliency, security, and performance requirements.

Team Development

• Coach and mentor engineers.

• Create growth opportunities for TS02 engineers.

• Ensure quality engineering practices are consistently followed.

• Drive peer reviews and technical excellence.

Product Ownership

• Operate as part of a product team with end-to-end accountability.

• Own development, production support, reliability, and continuous improvement.

• Lead incident response and problem resolution efforts.

Business Partnership

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and portfolio management teams.

• Translate investment and liquidity management requirements into engineering solutions.

• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Modernization & Innovation

• Drive adoption of cloud-native patterns.

• Support modernization of liquidity management systems.

Required Technical Skills

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, architecture, and system integration.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or IT, or Bachelor’s in Computer Applications (BCA), or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA).

• Learning mindset & coaching ability, Product ownership mentality, financial domain knowledge

Backend

• Strong experience in Golang, Python, and/or Java

• Hands-on experience with API design and microservices architecture

• Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

• Event-driven and distributed systems experience preferred

Frontend

• Angular and/or React

• Ability to contribute across the full stack when required

​Cloud & DevOps

AWS Cloud, ECS / Fargate, Lambda, S3, Storage Gateway, IAM, CloudFormation, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines

Engineering Practices

Agile delivery (Scrum and Kanban), Jira, Confluence, TDD / automated testing, Production support and operational ownership, Experience using AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, etc.) preferred

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.

Our mission

Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to you 

Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:

Financial wellness 
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.

Physical wellness 
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.

Personal wellness 
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.

How we work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (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.