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ID #20539230
State Pennsylvania
City Malvern
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Vanguard
Showed 2021-09-30
Date 2021-09-29
Deadline 2021-11-27
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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Product Architect

Pennsylvania, Malvern, 19355 Malvern USA

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Job Description Summary

This position is for a product architect within International division. It provides an excellent opportunity to shape the vision, technology architecture and strategic program direction across the three lines of business - Retail, Institutional and Advisory services.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Provides the architectural leadership to shape the vision, future direction, and roadmap for strategic business and technology projects.
  • Persuade and influence Business and Information Technology (IT) leaders on the architectural direction for strategic technology projects.
  • Continuously pursues strong technical acumen:
    • Establishes working relationships with strategic and boutique technology providers.
    • Leverages knowledge capital available through subscription research services.
    • Leverages the Internet as a critical resource for related knowledge capital, inclusive of blogs, podcasts, webinar, etc.
    • Attends conferences and engages in associated activities (e.g., conducting presentations, leading workshops, etc.).
    • Consumes and contributes content from and to Open Source communities.
  • Provides architecture thought leadership and expertise.
  • Defines reference and implementation architectures.
  • Develops proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.
  • Monitors implementation activity to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld.
  • Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance, security, etc.), as appropriate.
  • Communicates complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
  • Establishes relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists for the purpose of advancing proposed architectural solutions.
  • Utilizes a general understanding of the competitive landscape and corporate and business unit strategies to provide context for architectural decision making.
  • Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
  • Minimum five years relevant work experience.

Additional Requirements:
  • A recognized Thought Leader with excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to create clarity and certainty when there is Architecture ambiguity; communicate to all stakeholders at varying levels within the Organization.
  • Ability to weave "Lean", DevOPs concepts into the fabric of our culture.
  • Research Emerging Technologies, and if applicable, lead the buildout of POC's that demonstrate the potential relevance in business domains.
  • Full-Stack development experience - Java, Spring, Angular and DB technologies
  • Database skills - Oracle, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  • Facilitates and advices on Enterprise level delivery and design of reusable artifacts and API interface specifications (XSD/WSDL/WADL/Swagger/OpenAPI/YAML) and API security standards and implementation (Oauth, OpenId)
  • Ability to learn and apply the knowledge of Amazon Services: Amazon API Gateway, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, SNS, Lambda, AWS RDS (DynamoDB, Postgres, Aurora), CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
  • A deep intellectual curiosity and learning agility; stays on the forefront of business and technology solutions, especially API and microservice design, application security, and Front-End / UI development
  • Experience in financial services industry, specifically investment management and/or banking is preferred

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we're changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn't just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose - and that's how we've become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let's make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing."

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

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