Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

Job Summary

Provides expert level IT technical lead services, including the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead design and implementation of complex software solutions.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor for the team.
• Drive architecture decisions with architects and senior stakeholders.
• Ensure solutions meet scalability, resiliency, security, and performance requirements.
• The role is an Individual Contributor leadership position, not a people manager role. The expectation is to coach, mentor, and elevate the technical capability of the team while remaining hands-on in design and development.

Team Development

• Coach and mentor engineers.
• Create growth opportunities for TS02 engineers.
• Ensure quality engineering practices are consistently followed.
• Drive peer reviews and technical excellence.

Product Ownership

• Operate as part of a product team with end-to-end accountability.
• Own development, production support, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead incident response and problem resolution efforts.

Business Partnership

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and portfolio management teams.
• Translate investment and liquidity management requirements into engineering solutions.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Modernization Innovation

• Drive adoption of cloud-native patterns.
• Support modernization of liquidity management systems.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, architecture, and system integration.
• Bachelor s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or IT, or Bachelor s in Computer Applications (BCA), or Master s in Computer Applications (MCA).
• Learning mindset coaching ability, Product ownership mentality, financial domain knowledge

Skills

Backend

• Strong experience in Golang, Python, and/or Java
• Hands-on experience with API design and microservices architecture
• Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Event-driven and distributed systems experience preferred

Frontend

• Angular and/or React
• Ability to contribute across the full stack when required

Cloud DevOps

• AWS Cloud, ECS / Fargate, Lambda, S3, Storage Gateway, IAM, CloudFormation, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines

Engineering Practices

• Agile delivery (Scrum and Kanban), Jira, Confluence, TDD / automated testing, Production support and operational ownership, Experience using AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, etc.) preferred

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard's India office.

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