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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Developer to work on the integration and delivery of real-time and time-series data platforms within our investment management technology team. This role combines hands-on engineering with domain expertise, setting direction for systems that underpin market data, trading, portfolio, and analytics workflows used by Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Quant teams.
Responsibilities
- Act as the senior developer for real-time and historical data, integrating with OMD’s OneTick platform.
- Collaborate with business and IT leaders to understand requirements, propose scalable solutions, and set engineering standards.
- Work with downstream system owners to understand their data needs and ensure the platform meets them optimally.
- Lead the design and implementation of real-time and time-series data services based on evolving business requirements and domain knowledge.
- Remain hands-on in the design and implementation of critical components.
- Set engineering standards for performance, resilience, data quality, and observability.
- Review code and designs for correctness, performance, and operational readiness.
- Lead integrations with vendor platforms and ensure consistent, reliable data across internal consumers.
- Own production stability for business-critical data systems, especially during trading hours.
- Define and enforce best practices for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, scalability risks, and operational weaknesses.
Requirements
- Proven significant professional software engineering experience combined with significant domain expertise gained from building real-time data platforms in investment management.
- Strong experience integrating with real-time vendor platforms like OneTick.
- Strong experience with time-series databases and analytical platforms.
- Hands-on experience in Python and other programming languages.
- Experience building scalable services on AWS.
- Proven experience acting as a Senior Engineer on mission-critical systems involving real-time streaming and messaging technologies on Cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- Deep understanding of financial time-series characteristics (high volume, bursty data, corrections, late data).
- Proven ability to design scalable schemas and query models for both intraday and historical analytics.
- Strong understanding of market data, orders, executions, positions, portfolios, and pricing.
- Familiarity with vendor data ecosystems (e.g. Bloomberg, Refinitiv, MarketAxess).
- Experience delivering platforms used directly by PMs, Traders, and Quant teams.
- Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Python
- AWS
- OneTick
- Time-series databases
- Analytical platforms
- Real-time streaming
- Messaging technologies
- Market data
- Orders
- Executions
- Positions
- Portfolios
- Pricing
- Bloomberg
- Refinitiv
- MarketAxess
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Vanguard is a different kind of investment company, founded in 1975 on the principle of managing funds solely in the interests of clients.
- This philosophy has helped millions achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments.
- Vanguard's mission is value to investors.
- Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model designed to capture flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
- Vanguard believes its mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is critical for long-term client outcomes and enriching the employee experience.
Equal Opportunity
- Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer.
- Vanguard is committed to providing a working environment free from discrimination, prejudice, and bias.
- Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status.
- Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
- Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.
- Please inform careers@vanguard.com if you need assistance completing this application or to otherwise participate in the application process.