Jobs at Vanguard

Supports investment trade and portfolio administration by reconciling data, investigating exceptions, assessing operational risks, and coordinating issue resolution. Maintains and validates investment data across systems, supports portfolio and product onboarding, develops operational dashboards and reports, and contributes to documentation, testing, and process improvements. Serves as a liaison among portfolio managers, traders, custodians, relationship managers, and internal partners.

Lead data science and AI/ML initiatives for enterprise conversational and agentic AI across the full lifecycle. Develop and optimize NLP, generative AI, LLM, retrieval, classification, and agentic solutions; establish evaluation, observability, validation, and responsible AI standards; analyze complex datasets and system behavior; and translate findings into product and engineering improvements. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, mentor data scientists, communicate technical insights, and guide solutions from research through production.

Leads the technical design and evolution of an enterprise design system, including components, patterns, tokens, templates, documentation, and accessibility standards. Partners with engineers to align design and code, resolves complex interaction and visual design problems, guides design reviews, coaches designers, and supports scalable product and marketing experiences. The role requires advanced Figma expertise, strong systems and interaction design craft, technical fluency, and experience building reusable design ecosystems.

Provides legal and regulatory advice on ESG, sustainability, investment stewardship, and UK/EU asset management regulations. Responsibilities include drafting disclosures and reports, supporting regulatory change projects, conducting legal research, monitoring emerging regulations, preparing impact assessments, and advising stakeholders. The role also builds cross-functional relationships and uses legal technology and AI-enabled tools to improve research and regulatory monitoring.

Develops and supports enterprise backend applications, databases, APIs, and microservices. Leads system optimization, data integration, secure architecture, documentation, testing, deployments, and production support. Collaborates with frontend and cross-functional teams, translates technical specifications into code, resolves complex issues, participates in design and code inspections, and mentors less experienced staff. The role requires Java and Spring Boot expertise, AWS services, REST APIs, and potentially mainframe technologies.

Leads threat emulation, red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, exploit proof-of-concept development, incident investigations, and security control enhancement. Analyzes attack patterns, logs, traffic, vulnerabilities, and emerging threats; recommends mitigations; communicates findings across IT and business teams; supports security initiatives; and mentors junior staff.

Leads Adobe Target experimentation and personalization implementations, including A/B tests, audience targeting, recommendations, front-end development, QA, analytics integration, troubleshooting, governance, and reusable technical patterns. Partners with product, design, analytics, AEM, MarTech, and engineering teams to deliver scalable experiences. Mentors developers, manages technical risks and dependencies, establishes coding and release standards, and supports reliable experimentation delivery.

Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, reference checks, offers, and hiring events. Partner with hiring managers to develop recruitment strategies, analyze hiring metrics and market trends, improve recruitment processes, and enhance candidate experience. The role also supports talent acquisition initiatives, reporting, compliance, and best-practice implementation.

Owns data governance and stewardship across FAS Operations, including data inventories, metadata, lineage, quality rules, controls, retention, remediation, and audit evidence. Partners with Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and Security teams to resolve data issues, improve reporting, manage lifecycle requirements, and strengthen operational resilience. Provides governance leadership, stakeholder challenge, risk escalation, and practical guidance while supporting continuous improvement and automation.

Lead backend system design, development, optimization, and integration. Build APIs, integrate data sources, ensure security and scalability, maintain documentation, support deployments, mentor developers, and participate in SDLC activities and cross-functional collaboration.

Researches, evaluates, tests, and implements trading technologies, analytics, data sources, and tools to minimize transaction costs. Performs quantitative transaction cost analysis, enhances models and processes, resolves data and infrastructure issues, develops reporting, and communicates findings to trading desks and internal or external audiences.

Develops and executes fraud risk strategy for Personal Wealth, overseeing fraud monitoring, control assessments, risk mitigation, incident escalation, governance, and regulatory alignment. Partners with enterprise and cross-functional stakeholders to reduce losses and false positives while protecting clients and improving experience. Provides subject-matter expertise, identifies vulnerabilities and control gaps, communicates risk insights to leadership, and supports fraud prevention initiatives.

Lead and supervise a network/security team that designs, implements, and sustains Zscaler-based Zero Trust architectures (ZIA/ZPA), cloud-delivered security, and hybrid connectivity. Own escalation of complex incidents, vendor selection, policy and compliance enforcement, operational improvements, and alignment with security and business objectives.

Leads complex operational analytics from problem definition through recommendations and outcome measurement. Partners with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to connect operational, client experience, digital, and other data. Develops trusted metrics, measurement frameworks, executive narratives, and proactive insights that improve business performance. Mentors analysts and advances analytical standards and capabilities across the organization.

Lead development of AWS-based security platforms that orchestrate SAST, SCA, container, and API security scanning across enterprise pipelines. Build AI-enabled application security capabilities, including agentic vulnerability analysis, remediation recommendations, validation, and quality measurement. Design APIs, event-driven services, automation, and CI/CD integrations while improving platform reliability, observability, and scalability. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and strategic direction across DevSecOps, application security, cloud, and AI initiatives.

Leads Human Risk Management programs, including social engineering simulations, security awareness campaigns, behavioral initiatives, analytics, dashboards, and stakeholder communications. Partners cross-functionally to improve security culture, translate human risk data into actionable recommendations, and advise leaders on program performance and risk. Applies behavioral science, adult learning, marketing techniques, and emerging technologies to improve secure decision-making and program outcomes.

Designs and optimizes ETL processes, data pipelines, databases, and AWS-based data infrastructure. Integrates complex datasets, develops Spark, Python, and SQL solutions, and builds Power BI dashboards and reporting automation. Translates business and regulatory requirements into technical designs, ensures data quality, supports production releases, and partners with compliance, analytics, and business teams. Serves as a data engineering subject matter expert and mentors less-experienced professionals, with a focus on Financial Crimes and regulatory compliance reporting.

Leads and develops engineering teams delivering cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions. Responsibilities include people management, coaching, technical decision-making, software release delivery, hands-on coding, stakeholder collaboration, resource planning, governance, and continuous improvement. The role requires guiding teams through complex technical challenges while ensuring alignment with security, risk, compliance, and engineering standards.

Supports daily security pricing and valuation for mutual funds, managed accounts, and institutional products. Researches pricing exceptions, market data, vendor information, and complex securities; resolves discrepancies and escalates material issues. Collaborates with investment, trading, fund accounting, compliance, audit, custodial, and vendor teams. Participates in projects, testing, documentation, controls, process improvements, new product implementation, and operational support while developing expertise in financial markets and valuation practices.

Provides independent, risk-based compliance advice and oversight for Vanguard’s Irish and European regulated activities. The role interprets Irish and EU regulations, challenges first-line controls, supports regulatory change, monitoring, risk assessments, remediation, supervisory engagements, and regulatory reporting. It also contributes to policies, procedures, training, communications, compliance culture, and cross-functional projects involving Legal, Risk, and European Compliance.