Core Responsibilities
Test Engineering & Automation Frameworks
- Design and build automated testing frameworks for backend services, data pipelines, and end‑to‑end investment workflows
- Develop regression testing, scenario validation, and deterministic validation suites for portfolio calculations, tax logic, and trading workflows
- Create reusable testing tools, harnesses, and datasets (e.g., golden datasets, synthetic data generation)
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation
Controls & Validation (Investment Systems Focus)
- Implement controls‑by‑design to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of investment workflows
- Build validation layers that detect data anomalies, workflow breaks, and calculation discrepancies
- Ensure traceability and reproducibility of results to meet audit and regulatory expectations
- Support development of validation frameworks for portfolio construction, tax‑loss harvesting, and analytics pipelines
Auxiliary Development (Backend / Data / Full‑Stack Support)
- Contribute to backend services or data pipelines to enable testability, observability, and validation hooks
- Develop supporting APIs, utilities, or UI components that aid in testing, debugging, and workflow validation
- Improve system instrumentation to enable better monitoring and validation
Cloud & Engineering Practices (AWS)
- Build and run validation frameworks on AWS using scalable, cloud‑native patterns
- Integrate testing tools into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Contribute to observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to support validation and issue diagnosis
SDLC & Production Support
- Participate in design, code, and test reviews to ensure quality is built in early
- Support defect identification, triage, and root cause analysis
- Contribute to production validation, reconciliation checks, and post‑release verification
- Ensure solutions comply with information security and technology policies
Experience Required
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, test engineering, or platform engineering within investment, wealth management, or financial systems
- Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or Java
- Experience building automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, and end‑to‑end)
- Solid understanding of investment domain concepts (portfolios, positions, transactions, tax lots, trading lifecycle, or analytics workflows)
- Experience working with data‑intensive systems and validating data quality and accuracy
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS preferred)
Preferred
- Experience implementing controls, validation frameworks, or reconciliation processes in financial systems
- Exposure to model validation, analytics validation, or calculation verification workflows
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event‑driven architectures
- Familiarity with observability tools and debugging complex production systems
What Success Looks Like
- You build robust automated validation frameworks that significantly reduce production defects
- You improve confidence in investment workflows by ensuring correctness and reproducibility
- You embed testing and control mechanisms directly into system design and delivery pipelines
- You act as a quality multiplier—raising engineering standards across the VPI platform
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, test engineering, or platform engineering within investment, wealth management, or financial systems
- Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or Java
- Experience building automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
- Solid understanding of investment domain concepts (portfolios, positions, transactions, tax lots, trading lifecycle, or analytics workflows)
- Experience working with data-intensive systems and validating data quality and accuracy
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Experience implementing controls, validation frameworks, or reconciliation processes in financial systems
- Exposure to model validation, analytics validation, or calculation verification workflows
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with observability tools and debugging complex production systems
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.
