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.
Skills Required
- Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, architecture, and system integration
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, B.E./B.Tech, BCA, or MCA
- Strong experience with Golang, Python, and/or Java
- Hands-on experience with API design and microservices architecture
- Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
- Experience with Angular and/or React
- Experience with AWS Cloud, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, Storage Gateway, IAM, and CloudFormation
- Experience with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Agile delivery using Scrum and Kanban
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Experience with TDD and automated testing
- Experience with production support and operational ownership
- Learning mindset and coaching ability
- Product ownership mentality
- Financial domain knowledge
- Event-driven and distributed systems experience
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude
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.
