About this role
Core Responsibilities
• Drive design and delivery of event-driven, serverless solutions
• Guide reliability, scalability, and multi-region strategies
• Deliver complex work through others while remaining hands-on
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical capability across the team
• Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams
• Improve developer experience through platform capabilities, tooling, and documentation
Qualifications
• Minimum of eight years related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Deep AWS experience, including Lambda and event-driven architectures
• Experience with software development. Languages needed: Python, Node (nice to have), Java (nice to have)
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code and reusable platform patterns
• Experience building and operating distributed, highly available systems
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, and enterprise compliance
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production operations
• Knowledge of HTTP and Web patterns (nice to have: strong experience
Platform Engineering
• Experience building or operating internal platforms or developer tooling
• Strong focus on self-service capabilities and developer experience
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call accountability
Technical Leadership
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical direction
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to influence decisions beyond immediate team
Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. About Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.