Summary
Are you passionate about building intelligent systems that transform how organizations discover, access, and leverage information?
Vanguard is seeking a Lead Agentic AI Engineer to help drive the next generation of AI-powered experiences supporting our Corporate Communications and enterprise digital platforms. In this highly visible technical leadership role, you'll combine expertise in cloud engineering, data engineering, and Generative AI to build scalable solutions that enhance search, automation, knowledge discovery, and user experiences across the organization.
You'll work at the intersection of AWS cloud technologies, enterprise data platforms, and emerging Agentic AI capabilities, delivering innovative solutions that enable the business to unlock greater value from information and AI-driven insights. This role offers the opportunity to shape architecture, influence technical strategy, and help establish future Agentic AI capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of enterprise-grade cloud, data, and AI solutions.
Develop Agentic AI applications leveraging Amazon Bedrock, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agent orchestration frameworks.
Design intelligent search and knowledge retrieval solutions that improve how users interact with enterprise content and information.
Build and optimize data pipelines, ETL processes, and cloud-native data platforms using AWS technologies.
Create reusable services, APIs, automation frameworks, and cloud-native engineering capabilities.
Drive architecture decisions and establish technical best practices across cloud and AI initiatives.
Implement infrastructure automation through Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices.
Collaborate with product, engineering, and business partners to identify high-value AI and cloud opportunities.
Ensure solutions meet security, governance, scalability, reliability, and performance standards.
Mentor engineers and serve as a technical leader across multiple initiatives
Qualifications
Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least two years of development experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
5+ years of experience designing and developing solutions on AWS.
Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, containerization, and DevOps practices.
Proficiency in Python, Java, or Node.js.
Experience building Generative AI applications using AWS Bedrock, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures.
Deep understanding of end-to-end ETL processes across diverse workflows, with the ability to guide the team with AWS data services such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena.
Experience integrating cloud and AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, and data platforms.
Demonstrated experience working in Agile delivery frameworks such as Scrum or SAFe.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, or DevOps Engineer).
Experience with multi-agent architectures and agent orchestration frameworks.
Experience with vector databases and advanced knowledge retrieval solutions.
Experience with AI governance, observability, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI practices.
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) experience.
Power BI or enterprise reporting experience.
Experience supporting communications, digital experience, content management, or customer-facing platforms.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not 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
- At least eight years of related work experience
- At least two years of development experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Five or more years designing and developing solutions on AWS
- Knowledge of cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, containerization, and DevOps practices
- Proficiency in Python, Java, or Node.js
- Experience building generative AI applications using AWS Bedrock, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures
- Understanding of end-to-end ETL processes and AWS data services including Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena
- Experience integrating cloud and AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, and data platforms
- Experience working in Agile delivery frameworks such as Scrum or SAFe
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
- Graduate degree
- AWS certification such as Solutions Architect, Developer, or DevOps Engineer
- Experience with multi-agent architectures and agent orchestration frameworks
- Experience with vector databases and advanced knowledge retrieval solutions
- Experience with AI governance, observability, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI practices
- Adobe Experience Manager experience
- Power BI or enterprise reporting experience
- Experience supporting communications, digital experience, content management, or customer-facing platforms
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.
