Senior Technical Lead

at  Vanguard

Are you a highly skilled, self-motivated and passionate technical leader who’s looking for their next exciting opportunity? Do you live in Philadelphia and want to work in the city? Are you ready to work on solutions that will change the way the world invests? If this sounds like you, we should talk.
You’ll be joining a team who is a key player for our modernization goals and owns a full stack portfolio of applications. We embrace experimentation and encourage out of the box thinking, creativity and feedback from our business to ensure we are delivering value. You will have a unique opportunity to learn new technology, build your investment acumen and shape the future of Advice at Vanguard.

DESIRED TECHNOLOGY SKILLSET:

• Senior experience with 2 or more of the following languages or frameworks
• Angular
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Java REST Services – Spring, Jersey
• Python

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Get cool team swag to represent your team. Yes, we have swag.
• Brainstorm innovative solutions to challenging problems with your teammates in a modern, stylish studio in the heart of downtown Philly.
• Set the technical vision and direction for the team as we refactor PAS systems to the cloud
• Grow the technical skillset of the team by coaching, inspiring and driving your team members to improve each day
• Be a trusted partner to our business and internal stakeholders. Working closely with them to understand the problems they face and translating them into technical solutions the team can deliver
• As a technical leader on an agile team, you’ll work within the team to break down problems into epics and user stories during backlog grooming and sprint planning

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provide technical expertise and complete sophisticated development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Ensure the viability of IT work. Recommend development options and approves the team’s technical work. Conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• Identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevate complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner. Research issues and perform root cause analysis. Anticipate technology problems and prevents them.
• Communicate with key partners on project issues and implications. Evaluate the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas.
• Maintain a current and solid understanding of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentor IT staff and identify training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members.
• Review and approve documentation and diagrams built by IT team members. Write documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Find opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participate as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Present technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
• Thoroughly understand and stay in sync with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verify that work meet requirements.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.