Engineering Manager, IT Delivery

Engineering Manager Role Summary - AWMT Investment Performance (Portfolio Services and Insights Product Family) Manager- PradeepKumar Ramachandran

Lead the Investment Performance Modernization initiative in AWMT, owning delivery, engineering quality, and team leadership while staying hands-on with AWS data technologies.

Key Expectations

• Drive Mainframe modernization to AWS (Glue, PySpark, Redshift)
• Stay hands-on in Python/PySpark and technical design decisions
• Own end-to-end delivery, risks, and stakeholder alignment
• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Ensure scalable, reliable, and high-quality data solutions

• Modernization / cloud migration experience
• Strong AWS background
• Wealth Management/ Investment performance / financial domain exposure (Nice to have)

Lead the T3 team's testing and engineering excellence mission in AWMT, owning testing strategy, shared quality platforms, and team leadership while operating as a product owner for engineering quality across the organization.

Key Expectations

• Define and evolve testing strategy across unit, API, integration, E2E, performance, and resilience testing
• Act as product owner for shared testing and quality capabilities, owning vision, roadmap, and outcomes
• Support and mature a suite of common testing tools and frameworks used across AWMT
• Drive engineering excellence through clear quality standards, metrics, and feedback loops
• Partner with product, SRE, and architecture leaders to improve product health and release confidence
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team

• Experience leading shared platforms or enablement teams
• Strong background in test automation and CI/CD integration
• Systems-level thinking about quality, risk, and delivery tradeoffs
• Experience influencing quality outcomes without direct authority

Lead Spectra's mission to enable advised clients to access their money when they need it, owning customer-facing transfer experiences and AWS-based microservices (~15,000 requests, $400M+ monthly) while expanding functionality in alignment with client input and driving AI adoption across a full-stack team.

Key Expectations

• Manage and deliver the next generation of Advice Money Movement
• Champion AI and emerging tech adoption by creating space for experimentation and helping the team operationalize learnings
• Drive engineering excellence through clear quality standards, metrics, and feedback loops
• Coordinate with upstream and downstream money movement teams (STW, CM5, ET3) and peer EMs to ensure seamless orchestration across complex transfer flows
• Partner with Technical Lead and Product Manager to shape product vision, technical strategy, and roadmap while balancing customer needs with technical sustainability
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team

• Track record embedding emerging technologies into team workflows with measurable outcomes
• Strong technical credibility across frontend and backend development using Node/Java/Angular
• Systems-level thinking about quality, risk, and delivery tradeoffs
• Experience influencing quality outcomes without direct authority

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.