Senior Manager, Application Engineering - Money Movement & Payments

Overview

Lead engineering teams and shape technical strategy for modern digital solutions within Vanguard's Investment and Money Movement platforms, building scalable, secure, cloud-native applications.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop high-performing engineering teams through hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Drive the technical vision, architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and cloud-native applications.
• Provide technical leadership for complex software initiatives, ensuring quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, UX, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business objectives.
• Lead solution design reviews, architecture decisions, and approval of technical deliverables across multiple applications and platforms.
• Oversee API integrations, data flows, and system interoperability to ensure secure and seamless application performance.
• Champion modern engineering practices including Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, microservices, automated testing, and cloud adoption.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering standards, frameworks, tools, and development methodologies.
• Ensure production readiness, provide support for critical applications, and lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex technical issues.
• Establish and govern software documentation standards, technical processes, and architectural best practices.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Review and approve technical designs, system documentation, and architecture artifacts.
• Ensure compliance with Information Security, risk, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with global stakeholders, effectively communicating technical strategy, project risks, and delivery outcomes.
• Maintain a broad understanding of financial services platforms, digital banking, money movement ecosystems, and client-facing applications.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, maintainability, and overall software quality across the engineering organization.
• Contribute to strategic technology roadmaps and support the adoption of emerging technologies.
• Participate in special projects and additional leadership initiatives as needed.

What you'll need

• Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading technical teams.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in Java, Python, JavaScript, APIs, and Microservices.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern application architectures.
• Strong understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases and distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in Agile environments.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in Banking, Payments, Money Movement, Digital Wallets, or Financial Services.
• Knowledge of cloud-native development, containerization, and DevSecOps practices.
• Exposure to both front-end and back-end application development.
• Experience building client-facing digital products and financial applications.

Details

• Based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India.
• Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
• Hybrid working model for most employees.