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Vanguard · 3 hours ago

Platform Engineering Manager

Malvern, PA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Vanguard is a leading investment management company focused on the long-term financial wellbeing of its clients. They are seeking a Platform Engineering Manager to define and lead a multi-year platform strategy, ensuring the evolution of API management and data replication capabilities while driving operational excellence and modernization initiatives.

FinanceFinancial Services

No H1B

Responsibilities

Define and lead a multi‑year platform strategy that accelerates AI modernization, reduces complexity, and maximizes operational efficiency across API management and data replication capabilities

Partner with architecture, security, and product leaders to translate reference architectures and patterns into actionable roadmaps for platform evolution and cloud failover readiness

Own health and evolution for a state-of-the-art API platform ensuring secure, scalable traffic management, active‑active/multi‑region configurations, and robust observability/alerting

Plan and execute upgrades and feature adoption in line with vendor roadmaps and user needs

Drive operational excellence and modernization initiatives to improve reliability and deployment throughput

Lead team to deliver reliable, low‑latency replication to modern cloud data stores

Set a vision that progressively reduces dependence on replication as application teams move “gold copy” data into modern stores; guide adoption and education to support the transition

Own SLAs/SLOs and resiliency response for platform services

Ensure compliance with security standards, identity/authentication requirements, and governance

Engage product owners, application teams, and enterprise stakeholders to prioritize outcomes and communicate progress and risks

Lead and develop technical specialists; build a learning culture, mentor engineers, and steward talent pipelines

Develops strong partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery

Leads the planning, development and implementation of a new technical product or multiple products with cross-divisional impact

Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Platform engineeringAPI managementData replicationOAuth 2.0CI/CD pipelinesSRE practicesObservabilityTechnical leadershipMentoringCross-functional collaboration

Required

Minimum of five years related work experience

Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required

Technical leadership in platform engineering at scale, including API gateways and data integration/replication

Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, multi‑region/active‑active architectures, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and SRE practices

Preferred

Two years of leading large cross-functional project teams preferred

Supervisory experience preferred

Company

Vanguard

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Check is a client-owned investment company that offers low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services.

Founded in 1975

Kelayres, Pennsylvania, USA

10001+ employees

http://investor.vanguard.com/corporate-portal

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

unknown

Key Investors

ic@3401

2017-03-31Non Equity Assistance

Leadership Team

Salim Ramji

Chief Executive Officer

Andrew Maack

Principal, Head of US Equity Index Portfolio Management

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