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
This role leads, directs, and manages the development of teams and provides expert-level software and application development services across multiple teams, while driving backend optimization, scalability, and secure data integration.
Responsibilities
1. Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Guides performance management, training, and compensation decisions per HR policies.
2. Partners with product and functional leads to ensure current and future staffing needs are met, maintaining a balanced and skilled development workforce.
3. Oversees software development and architecture design for product families. Leads complex technical development, design, and maintenance activities.
4. Provides strategic direction by identifying and implementing technical solutions. Resolves complex issues and aligns strategies across product families.
5. Drives capability-building initiatives across teams and functions, fostering key stakeholder relationships and talent development.
6. Oversees functional area standards, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy. Manages budgets and change request impacts.
7. Participates in divisional leadership, contributing to IT planning and strategy. Resolves escalated issues and drives continuous process improvements.
8. Tracks industry trends and implements relevant innovations, tools, and best practices across the functional area.
9. Oversees the creation and quality of development outputs such as code, test artifacts, and implementation reports.
10. Leads initiatives to optimize system performance, backend scalability, and secure data integration.
11. Guides technical teams in ensuring reliable backend services and seamless front-end collaboration.
12. Participates in special projects and fulfills other assigned duties.
Qualifications & Skills
- Minimum 12 years of relevant work experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial role.
- Bachelor's or Master’s (preferred) degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field with relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Scrum, or PMP).
- Leadership of leaders (scaling teams, not individual contribution).
- Ability to scale organizations (multiple teams / ~20 teams over time).
- Strong people management and organizational design skills.
- Technical depth (Java-based ecosystem) without hands-on coding expectation.
- Ability to understand code quality, coverage, and architecture decisions.
- Experience working with modern engineering stacks (Java, Node.js, React – flexible).
- Cloud technology familiarity (AWS preferred, others acceptable).
- Strong decision-making and accountability at senior levels.
- Cross-functional collaboration (engineering, product, stakeholders).
- Talent attraction and team-building capability.
- Strategic thinking and long-term execution mindset.
- Navigating enterprise standards (security, scalability, reliability).
- Cultural fit and values alignment (trust, integrity, mission-driven).
- Effective communication with US and India stakeholders.
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 12 years relevant experience with at least 5 years in leadership/managerial roles
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
- Master's degree in a related field
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Scrum, PMP)
- Proven experience leading leaders and scaling multiple teams (~20 teams over time)
- Technical depth in Java-based ecosystems and ability to evaluate code quality and architecture
- Experience with modern stacks (Java, Node.js, React)
- Cloud technology familiarity (AWS preferred)
- Strong people management, organizational design, and talent attraction skills
- Effective cross-functional communication with US and India stakeholders
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.
