Senior Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Senior Engineering Manager provides strategic technology leadership and architectural guidance across a portfolio of Wealth Management products, platforms, and services. The role leads and develops high-performing engineering teams, establishes performance expectations, fosters an inclusive and collaborative culture, and advances talent development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness. The manager is accountable for the successful delivery and operational excellence of secure, resilient, scalable technology solutions that meet client, regulatory, and business requirements. They partner with Product, Architecture, Data, Technology, and business leaders to shape roadmaps, set technology investment priorities, and deliver business value. The role promotes a client-first mindset and translates client, advisor, and crew needs into technology improvements that support better advice and wealth management outcomes. The position drives modern engineering practices, including cloud-native architectures, platform engineering, DevSecOps, AI-enabled development, automation, observability, and continuous delivery. It provides oversight and governance for solution design, architecture, integration patterns, engineering standards, and production readiness; guides complex technology decisions and risk management; and leads modernization and continuous improvement initiatives. The manager also ensures appropriate documentation, technical controls, and compliance with Information Technology, Information Security, regulatory, and risk management requirements. The role builds relationships with stakeholders and external partners, communicates technology strategy and delivery progress, and fosters innovation, accountability, learning, and technical excellence. It maintains a broad understanding of wealth management, advice, investment, and operational processes, and participates in strategic initiatives and other leadership responsibilities as required. Vanguard describes its work model as hybrid for the majority of crew members, supporting flexibility as well as in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience, including at least 5 years in a senior managerial role with a strong focus on application engineering.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in Wealth Management, Financial Services, FinTech, or another highly regulated industry.
- Demonstrated success delivering cloud-native solutions and modern platforms in AWS or comparable cloud environments, including scalable, resilient, and secure engineering practices.
- Strong experience shaping technology strategy and influencing architecture, platform, and engineering decisions across multiple teams, products, or domains.
- Experience leading teams responsible for customer-facing digital experiences, enterprise platforms, data-driven applications, and complex system integrations.
- Proven ability to partner with Product, Architecture, Data, and business leaders to align technology investments with client needs, business priorities, and strategic outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience driving technology modernization, engineering transformation, and continuous improvement, including modern engineering practices, automation, and AI-enabled development.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, systems design, application security, software delivery lifecycle management, and engineering best practices.
Nice To Haves
- Experience delivering technology solutions for advice, wealth management, investment management, or client service capabilities.
- Experience leading geographically distributed and globally aligned engineering teams across multiple locations and time zones.
- Experience delivering and operating customer-facing digital platforms, advisor experiences, and enterprise technology products at scale.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, enterprise integrations, APIs, distributed systems, and modern data platforms.
- Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, Angular, React, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering practices.
- Experience using automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and client outcomes.
- Professional certifications in cloud technologies, architecture, agile delivery, or technology leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams; establish performance expectations and foster an inclusive, collaborative culture.
- Drive talent development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.
- Provide strategic technology leadership, engineering direction, and architectural guidance across Wealth Management products, platforms, and services.
- Own successful delivery, operational excellence, security, resilience, and scalability of technology solutions.
- Ensure teams deliver high-quality software and platforms that meet client, regulatory, and business requirements.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Data, and Technology leaders to shape roadmaps, define technology investment priorities, and accelerate business value.
- Promote a client-first engineering mindset and translate client, advisor, and crew needs into technology solutions and improved outcomes.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, platform engineering, DevSecOps, AI-enabled development, automation, observability, and continuous delivery.
- Provide technical oversight and governance for solution design, architecture, integration patterns, engineering standards, and production readiness.
- Guide complex technology decisions, risk management, and problem resolution; anticipate challenges, perform root cause analysis, and improve reliability, performance, and operational effectiveness.
- Lead technology modernization and continuous improvement across engineering practices, frameworks, tools, and delivery processes.
- Establish and uphold engineering standards, technical controls, and documentation practices while ensuring compliance with technology, security, regulatory, and risk requirements.
- Build stakeholder and external-partner relationships; communicate technology strategy, delivery progress, risks, and opportunities and influence organizational decisions.
- Mentor future technology leaders and foster innovation, accountability, technical excellence, continuous learning, experimentation, and improvement.
- Maintain an understanding of wealth management, advice, investment, and operational processes so solutions support client, advisor, and crew experiences as well as appropriate controls and governance.
- Participate in strategic initiatives and other leadership responsibilities as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
