Senior Technical Lead, Front-End

Job Description

Join Vanguard’s new Dallas-Fort Worth office and have the unique opportunity of creating culture of technical innovation, experimentation, and expand Vanguard’s tech modernization. Our Plano-based location is dedicated to enhancing all aspects of our rapidly growing advice business while offering leadership and development opportunities that continue to enable crew supporting our clients while growing their own careers. In alignment with Vanguard’s dedication to making advice more accessible and affordable for investors, this location will support Vanguard’s hardworking roster of advisors and advice-focused crew.

While in Vanguard Personal Advisor Select, you’ll help us build and evolve our advice capabilities to serve the needs of our advisors and our investors. You will join an agile team with a co-located product owner, scrum lead, and a group of engineers, driving towards disrupting the world of advice through innovative solutions. You help drive our journey as we modernize our platforms for cloud-native solutions based on micro-front ends, microservices, and beyond.

Your team’s initial project will transition our Personal Advisor Select website from a single application to individually hosted micro-front ends and supporting consumer-based web services enabling us to more rapidly delivery new features to both Vanguard clients and internal advisors. You will have a hand in evolving our technology stack utilizing the latest versions of Angular, Nest, NX, TypeScript, AWS ECS/Fargate, and more. From there you will help set the vision of what comes next for the platform through innovation, experimentation, and proof-of-concepts.

In this role, you will:

• Provide technical leadership to your team, set the technical vision for your product, and provide informal coaching to the 4-5 engineers on the team.
• Work on a cross-functional product team where your deep understanding front-end engineering and user interface development will be called upon to translate advanced designs into accessible, semantic markup and responsive web pages.
• Collaborate with product owners, UX designers, data analysts, scrum masters, and developers to develop a world-class user experience. Recommend and effectively explain improvements in functionality, and UX elements that enable users to achieve their goals. Be an expert in building working relationships across teams.
• Research, advocate and implement industry standard coding methodologies to improve workflows through the selection of evolving technologies and tools that your team will use to build expert-level user experiences.
• Develop and continually improve client-side and server-side architecture for web applications.
• Strengthen full-stack engineering practices for your team and product family

What it takes:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Expertise with front-end client-side development, frameworks, and patterns such as Angular, Redux, TypeScript, or other modern frameworks.
• Expertise with developing responsive, accessible, secure, and performant web applications
• Working knowledge of or interest in emerging UI patterns such as micro frontends.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

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.

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.