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This is a people-first role, managing teams of talented individuals who build capabilities that acquire, manage, enrich, and distribute data across the firm, ensuring it is accurate, secure, well governed, and readily accessible to downstream consumers.\nThe role is accountable for the delivery of cloud-native technology services including data ingestion pipelines, APIs and operational workflow capabilities, built using Python, Java, and AWS. The successful candidate will have strong people leadership skills, sound technical judgement with the ability to align product, architecture, business, and other technology partners through significant growth and transformational change.\nIn this role you will\nCore Responsibilities\nPeople Leadership & Team Development\nProvide visible, supportive, and accountable leadership, creating an inclusive, high-performing culture built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning\nSet clear expectations and strengthen performance, engagement, and retention through coaching, feedback, development, and succession planning\nRecruit, onboard, and develop talent to meet current and future capability needs\nEngineering Excellence\nPartner with technical leads and architects to create a culture of engineering excellence within the teams\nEnsure data platforms and services are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and support accurate, secure, well-governed, and readily accessible data for downstream consumers\nDrive continuous improvement and responsible adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, testing, documentation, and delivery\nDelivery Leadership\nUnderstand project objectives, dependencies, and risks, and translate priorities into clear team expectations and delivery commitments\nLead confidently through ambiguity and change, ensuring teams have the capacity, skills, clarity, and support to deliver\nWork across product, business, delivery, and technology teams to anticipate risks, resolve impediments, and improve delivery flow\n\nStakeholder Partnership & Influence\nBuild trusted partnerships with business, product, architecture, and technology leaders to shape priorities and improve technology products and services\nCommunicate priorities, risks, resource needs, and organisational challenges clearly, influencing alignment across competing stakeholder interests\nRepresent team’s perspectives in leadership and strategic planning sessions\nOperational Leadership & Governance\nEnsure compliance with technology, security, risk, and governance requirements while strengthening service reliability, operational readiness, and incident management\nContribute to workforce planning, organisational design, and strategy, connecting team priorities to broader business, technology, and investment-data objectives\nWhat It Takes\nDegree in a technical discipline, or equivalent training and experience\nAgile Development experience, and a clear understanding of the full dev ops cycle\nExperience delivering data platforms and services, ideally using event-driven, cloud-native architectures using modern programming languages (Python, Java etc.)\nExperience with application development for a global user base\nExperience of Agile development, the full DevOps lifecycle, data governance, and modern engineering practices\nGood understanding of AI-enabled engineering tools and their responsible use across the software development lifecycle\nFinancial industry experience (buy side and/or sell side) preferred\nSpecial Factors\nVanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position\nThis is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)\nPlease note that we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this role early if there is a high level of interest. To avoid missing out, we recommend applying as soon as possible\nWhy Vanguard?\nVanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.\nThis is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments.\nIt's what we stand for: value to investors.\nInclusion Statement\nVanguard’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.”\nWe 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.\nWhen 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: to take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.\nHow We Work\nVanguard 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. 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