Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

Join Our Dynamic Team as a Tech Lead!

Are you ready to elevate your career to new heights? Tech Titans, part of the Maximize My Money family within the Discretionary Advice Platform (DAP), is seeking a highly motivated Tech Lead to join our innovative team. This is your chance to dive into the heart of complex technology solutions and bring fresh ideas to ensure the stability and growth of our cutting-edge services.

What You'll Do:

• Leverage Your Technical Expertise: Use your advanced skills in Frontend UI development with Angular, Ngrx, and Node.js to drive business success. Experience with AWS technologies like S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda is highly beneficial.
• Innovate and Maintain: Apply your knowledge to both new and existing services, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently.
• Lead and Develop: Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their growth and enhancing the team's overall capabilities. Lead technical discussions and decision-making processes to ensure best practices are followed.
• Strategize and Execute: Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical strategies and roadmaps. Ensure alignment with business goals and drive the execution of key projects. Work closely with agile teams and DAP product families to ensure we deliver world-class advice features for our clients.

Why You'll Love This Role:

• Continuous Learning: Embrace the opportunity to master new technologies and frameworks that are integral to Vanguard applications.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside diverse product teams, building both business and technical acumen across various areas.
• Career Growth: Your contributions will not only propel our business forward but also significantly enhance your professional development.
• Impactful Leadership: Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of financial technology by leading a team of talented engineers.

If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, Tech Titans is the place for you. Apply now and be part of a team that's shaping the future of financial technology! 

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provide technical expertise and complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure the viability of IT deliverables. Recommend development options and approve the team's technical deliverables. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• Identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and perform root cause analysis. Anticipate technology problems and prevent them.
• Communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas.
• Maintain a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentor IT staff and identify training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members.
• Review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participate as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Present technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
• Thoroughly understand and comply with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verify that deliverables meet requirements.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead junior crew
• Ability to identify technical optimizations
• Advanced expertise with Javascript/Angular/Node

Additional "nice to have" skills:

• Experience with MFE architecture

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our 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.