Advice Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

The Vanguard Group•Malvern, PA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves leveraging advanced technical expertise in Frontend UI development with Angular, RxJS, and Node.js, with a strong preference for AWS technologies like S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda. The Technical Lead will be responsible for innovating and maintaining both new and existing services, ensuring their smooth and efficient operation. A key aspect of the role is to lead and develop engineers, fostering their growth and enhancing team capabilities, while also leading technical discussions and decision-making to ensure best practices. The position emphasizes applying AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate engineering excellence, improve developer productivity, code quality, and testing outcomes. Collaboration with product managers and stakeholders to define technical strategies and roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving project execution, is crucial. The role requires working closely with agile teams and DAP product families to deliver world-class advice features for clients. The position offers continuous learning opportunities, an AI-forward engineering culture, a collaborative environment with diverse product teams, significant career growth potential, and impactful leadership in shaping the future of financial technology.

Requirements

Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Advanced skills in Frontend UI development with Angular, RxJS, and Node.js.
Experience with AWS technologies like S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda is highly beneficial.
Ability to mentor and guide engineers.
Ability to lead technical discussions and decision-making processes.
Ability to apply AI-enabled tools and practices to enhance developer productivity, code quality, and testing outcomes.
Ability to collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical strategies and roadmaps.
Ability to work closely with agile teams and DAP product families.
Thorough understanding and compliance with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides expert level IT 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 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 resolves technical issues in a timely manner.
Researches issues and performs root cause analysis.
Anticipates technology problems and prevents them.
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 throughout product life cycle to identify issues.
Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings.
Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
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.