Senior Developer

Vanguard, one of the world’s largest investment management companies and a recognized employer of choice, seeks career-oriented individuals for experienced Software Engineers.

Vanguard IT resources are central to the success of our business goals. IT resources work on meaningful and impactful projects. We have pride in what we do and know we are making a difference to Vanguard investors.

We believe that IT is a trusted partner that:

• Delights clients and prospects through exceptional technology-based experiences,
• Helps business partners envision possibilities and reach their goals through innovative solutions that drive Vanguard’s core purpose,

Enables Vanguard to be a best place to work and, is driven by a highly engaged and effective workforce. The latest methodologies and IT practices are used
Lean Scrum/Agile and Kanban Project Management Processes
Test Driven Development and Automated Testing, Unit, Regression, Performance, Application Vulnerability
Continuous Delivery
Ideation and Innovation Vanguard IT uses the latest technologies and programming languages
Web Technologies
Java, JavaScript Libraries such as AngularJS
C++, C#,
PHP, Rails, Grails, and Django frameworks
Visual Basic .NET
Mobile Technologies
Adobe AIR
Java (Android)
Objective-C, Swift
Capability Technologies
Source Code Repository: Subversion & Tortoise SVN , Bitbucket & GIT
Continuous Integration: Jenkins
Build Pipeline: Bamboo
CachingLocal: EhCache, Gemfire
Runtime Environment: tcServer, Pivotal Cloud Foundry to host Spring Boot Apps Running Embedded Tomcat
Requirements: Cucumber
Document Management: Sharepoint, Confluence
Project Management: JIRA/JIRA Agile
Other Technologies
DB2 and IDAA, Exadata
COBOL, Easytrieve , JCL, MQ Series
Hadoop Spark
Java on the Host
Matlab
Oracle PL/SQL
Perl, Python
R
SAS
Scala
SQL
Unix/Linux, Shell Scripting
We are a digital first company that invests significantly on technology to achieve our business goals. Vanguard’s growth has led to an increased need for talented software engineers and technology leaders.
The prospective candidates:
will have an opportunity to join a team that is highly collaborative and is staunched in finding innovative solutions to business problems, and
will join a team that build products and solutions for the Retail and Advisory business in one or more of the following:
Web development
Mobi Apps
Data Analytics & Client Insights
Business Process Automation
Digital Transformation for all client contacts
Gaining operational efficiency
We have invested heavily in the following architecture and the prospective candidate will join a team that uses these paradigms to meet business imperatives:
Client Side Architecture using Angular JS and REST
Spring Framework
Reactive Principles
Cloud Native Applications
DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Distributed applications and microservices
We are looking for highly motivated and passionate candidates to join a full stack team that will deliver business outcomes rapidly, drive process changes, standardization of tools and establish best practices and join a team that has a culture of embracing change and dynamic as we go through the large scale transformation in Vanguard IT. Most project teams follow agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban; some are adopting LEAN principles.
Below are some of the experiences and skills that we look for in the ideal candidate.
Minimum of five years software engineering and developer experience
Excellent problem solving skills and willingness to work with others is essential
High aptitude and very strong analytical skills
Advanced knowledge in one or more of the following tools and programming languages:
Java stack of technologies
REST and Jersey
Spring Framework
Distributed Caching Framework
Node JS
Unit Testing Frameworks such jUnits, Protractor Jasmine etc.
Automated testing frameworks such as Selenium
Collaboration tools such as Cucumber
Design patterns and Software engineering principles such as SOLID and Domain Driven Design
Below are some of the qualifications that are preferred
Very strong written, oral and interpersonal communications skills
Knowledge of Financial services industry
Emergent Technologies and FinTech
Vanguard does not provide sponsorship for this role.