Application Engineering Technical Lead - I

Location: Hyderabad, India

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.

Vanguard’s India Office

Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.

Role Summary

We are looking for an Application Engineer Technical Lead-I to join the Operations team, a strategic platform engineering group focused on building AI-enabled operational systems. The role involves developing AI-powered applications, dashboards, and agent-based solutions that proactively monitor environments, detect issues, improve operational efficiency, and support product teams across the ecosystem. The ideal candidate should have strong coding and problem-solving skills, hands-on exposure to GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and cloud technologies such as AWS. This role offers an opportunity to work on real-world AI engineering use cases, collaborate with multiple engineering teams, and contribute to automation, monitoring, incident support, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilites
1. Provides intermediate level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases. Integrates third party products.
2. Translates technical specifications into code for moderately complex new or enhancement projects for internal clients. Writes programs, develops code, tests artifacts, and produces reports. Employs software development techniques to ensure tests are implemented in a way that support automation.
3. Develop AI-powered applications, dashboards, build process.

4.Work with GenAI, LLMs, RAG frameworks, and AI agents.

5. Utilize AI tools such as Claude for code generation, code review, debugging, and solution design.

6.Collaborate with Product, SRE, Environment, Rapid Response, and other engineering teams.

7.Analyze issues, propose solutions, and drive implementation independently 8.Participate in CI/CD and deployment activities

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 5 years of experience in application development, system analysis, or database management.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or IT, or Bachelor’s in Computer Applications (BCA).
• Experience building AI dashboards and operational monitoring systems
• Exposure to Agentic AI frameworks and AI-driven automation.
• DevOps exposure and cloud-native application development.
• Understanding of system observability and error-monitoring solutions.
• Ability to understand business problems and recommend suitable AI-based solutions.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams
• Analytical thinking and self-driven ownership.
• Team lead experience

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.

Our mission

Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to you 

Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life: 

Financial wellness 
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs. 

Physical wellness 
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness. 

Personal wellness 
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life. 

How we work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (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.