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 expert-level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases, and directs business assessment and requirements analysis for hardware and operating systems, while architecting complex data integration and driving system performance and scalability improvements.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate closely with business users, product managers, and engineering partners - actively asking questions and clarifying requirements to ensure high-quality outcomes.
Design and implement Python-based microservices on AWS, using event-driven patterns tied to S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, and ECS.
Demonstrate expert-level ownership of data architecture, including, S3 buckets and Access Points, Bucket/object modelling and partitioning, DynamoDB and NoSQL data modelling, REST / GraphQL APIs, Encryption/KMS policies, High-throughput performance considerations
Integrate S3 and DynamoDB with event-driven compute (Lambda), orchestrated workflows (Step Functions), and container workloads (ECS).
Define and execute end-to-end testing strategies for event-driven systems, including contract testing, schema validation, replay/idempotency testing, and integration scenarios across multiple AWS services.
Work with Avro for data serialization, including schema design and evolution, compatibility rules, and performance optimization using Python libraries such as fastavro or avro.
Maintain engineering excellence through clean architecture, code reviews, robust documentation, observability and resilience practices, and operational readiness.
Provide 3rd-line support as needed and contribute to continuous improvement.
Qualifications and Skills
Minimum 8 years of experience in application development, system architecture and database management.
Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) or Master’s degree (M.E./M.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Expert-level Python development, including:
Object-oriented programming
Type hints and static analysis
Packaging, virtual environments, and dependency management
Concurrency (multiprocessing)
Deep testing experience using pytest, unittest, and related frameworks
Deep hands-on expertise with Amazon S3, including:
S3 Access Points and fine-grained IAM controls
Lifecycle rules, storage classes, multipart uploads
Experience working with NoSQL databases:
Design and data modelling
DynamoDB in AWS
Designing for efficiency and extensibility
Strong experience with:
AWS Lambda (serverless patterns, event integration, concurrency & retries)
AWS Step Functions (workflow orchestration, error handling, compensating flows)
Amazon ECS (task definitions, service scaling, container orchestration)
Top-notch end-to-end testing for event-driven architectures:
Contract testing & consumer-driven contracts
Avro schema validation and compatibility testing
Integration tests across S3 → Lambda → Step Functions → ECS pipelines
Monitoring and observability validation
Avro expertise:
Schema design & evolution strategies
Efficient read/write using fastavro, etc.
Handling large datasets and streaming workflows
Experience with cloud-native CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools (Git/Bitbucket, CloudWatch, Splunk, etc.)
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 application development, system architecture and database management.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
- Expert-level Python development (OOP, type hints/static analysis, packaging, virtual environments, multiprocessing).
- Deep testing experience using pytest, unittest, and related frameworks.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Amazon S3 including S3 Access Points, lifecycle rules, storage classes, and multipart uploads.
- Experience designing and modelling NoSQL databases, specifically DynamoDB.
- Strong experience with AWS Lambda (serverless patterns, event integration, concurrency & retries).
- Strong experience with AWS Step Functions (workflow orchestration, error handling).
- Strong experience with Amazon ECS (task definitions, service scaling, container orchestration).
- End-to-end testing skills for event-driven architectures (contract testing, schema validation, replay/idempotency, integration tests).
- Avro expertise including schema design, evolution, compatibility, and efficient read/write using fastavro or avro libraries.
- Experience with cloud-native CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools (Git/Bitbucket, CloudWatch, Splunk).
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.
