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
This role provides the most senior level IT technical lead services, directing technology strategy across platforms and teams, while delivering user-centric full-stack solutions and managing scalable backend integration.
Responsibilities
- Provides senior-level technical leadership for complex software, middleware, and hardware initiatives across multiple platforms. Delivers high-impact architectural design, development, and maintenance solutions.
- Ensures viability and effectiveness of IT deliverables by evaluating development options, approving architectural decisions, conducting functionality and security testing, and overseeing production support.
- Resolves complex technical problems, performs root cause analysis, and proactively mitigates risks introduced by less experienced staff. Anticipates and prevents potential system failures.
- Serves as a key technical communicator with stakeholders, evaluating and articulating the impact of change requests, while influencing and persuading on solution strategies.
- Maintains deep expertise in IT development methodologies, architecture, and emerging tools; mentors team members and leads adoption of best practices and new technologies.
- Oversees creation, approval, and maintenance of detailed technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and development standards.
- Champions continuous improvement of development methodologies, technical standards, and enterprise tooling.
- Develops robust, maintainable, and automated test-backed code. Creates reusable components, ad hoc queries, and reports. Leverages modern development frameworks to enhance automation and code quality.
- Drives team-wide productivity through collaborative frameworks, technology integration, and mentorship. Proactively identifies and resolves potential technical issues before escalation.
- Ensures compliance with IT and Information Security protocols and contributes to improvements in security policies and practices across teams.
- Possesses a comprehensive understanding of business operations across front, middle, and back-office functions. Designs technology solutions that support efficient workflows and strong control mechanisms.
- Participates in special projects and cross-functional initiatives as assigned.
- Collaborates with UI/UX and front-end teams to deliver user-centric, full-stack solutions.
- Integrates and manages seamless data flow across APIs, databases, and backend services to ensure performance and scalability.
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in a technical lead role.
- Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, IT, or Software Engineering, or a master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science.
- Strong expertise in Appian, AWS, SQL, REST APIs, Appian connected systems/plugins.
- Experience with Lambda, S3, KMS, GraphQL, Athena, Splunk / Elastic, DevSecOps tools, Typescript or Javascript, React or Node, Claude Code or similar is good to have.
- Experience of Integration across Appian & AWS.
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.
Skills Required
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software development
- At least 5 years in a technical lead role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields
- Strong expertise in Appian and AWS
- Experience with SQL and REST APIs
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
