Tech Lead – Data Engineer - Assets and Cash Flow

Vanguard is seeking a Technical Lead that will function as a critical liaison with Finance and Technology teams and will engage with clients across the enterprise. They will set engineering standards, demonstrate a strong track record of mentoring and developing junior developers, and drive the roadmap for data ingestion, transformation, and consumption across batch and event-driven pipelines.

• Lead Assets and Cashflow Program

• Experience leading end-to-end architecture and delivery of data pipelines

• Senior level experience delivering serverless data solutions with AWS Lambda, Glue, and Step Functions

• Hands on experience with Apache Iceberg table design and lifecycle

• Highly knowledgeable on techniques to maximize performance, reliability, and observability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related data engineering experience with a strong record of leading delivery for production ETL platforms.

• 5+ years building on AWS with deep expertise in Lambda, Glue, and Step Functions (state machine patterns, error handling, retries, and parallel branches).

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL

• Hands‑on experience with batch and event‑driven pipelines (e.g., Kinesis/Kafka), S3‑based data lakes, and Glue/Athena/EMR integration.

• Solid understanding of lakehouse architecture, columnar formats (Parquet), and performance tuning (file sizing, predicate pushdown, metadata operations).

• Familiarity with data quality frameworks, lineage/metadata management, and governance (IAM, Lake Formation, encryption at rest/in transit).

• Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences and influence cross‑functional decisions.

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience; graduate degree preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Operating Iceberg with query engines (Athena/Trino/Presto/Spark) and catalog integrations (Glue/HMS).

• Experience in financial services or similarly regulated industries.

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.