Platform Engineering Manager

Strategy & Vision

• Define and lead a multi‑year platform strategy that accelerates AI modernization, reduces complexity, and maximizes operational efficiency across API management and data replication capabilities.
• Partner with architecture, security, and product leaders to translate reference architectures and patterns into actionable roadmaps for platform evolution and cloud failover readiness.

API Platforms

Own health and evolution for a state-of-the-art API platform ensuring secure, scalable traffic management, active‑active/multi‑region configurations, and robust observability/alerting.

• Plan and execute upgrades and feature adoption in line with vendor roadmaps and user needs
• Drive operational excellence and modernization initiatives to improve reliability and deployment throughput.

Data Platforms

• Lead team to deliver reliable, low‑latency replication to modern cloud data stores.
• Set a vision that progressively reduces dependence on replication as application teams move “gold copy” data into modern stores; guide adoption and education to support the transition.

Other considerations:

• Own SLAs/SLOs and resiliency response for platform services
• Ensure compliance with security standards, identity/authentication requirements, and governance
• Engage product owners, application teams, and enterprise stakeholders to prioritize outcomes and communicate progress and risks.
• Lead and develop technical specialists; build a learning culture, mentor engineers, and steward talent pipelines.
• Develops strong partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery.
• Leads the planning, development and implementation of a new technical product or multiple products with cross-divisional impact
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional project teams preferred. Supervisory experience preferred
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required
• Technical leadership in platform engineering at scale, including API gateways and data integration/replication
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, multi‑region/active‑active architectures, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and SRE practices.

If you’re passionate about building secure, reliable platforms that accelerate developer outcomes while leveraging AI and modern technologies—and you thrive on mentoring bright engineers —we’d love to talk.

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.