Polaris Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

at  Vanguard Group

ABOUT VANGUARD

More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners.
Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 25 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals.

• Provides expert level IT investment systems technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provides technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Ensures the viability of IT investment systems deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team’s technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Responds to and re-solves technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and performs root cause analysis. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them.
• Builds relationships with other tech leads locally and globally to ensure the product team can have its requirements appropriately prioritized when dependent on other upstream or downstream products.
• Able to summarize and effortlessly communicate highly technical concepts to senior business management to ensure understanding.
• Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.
• Maintains a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff and identifies training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members.
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participates in design, code, and test inspections through-out product life cycle to identify issues. Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
• Maintains a comprehensive understanding of Investment Management business functions. Combines technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to Investment Management business problems.
• Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.