Engineering Manager, IT Delivery

Location: Malvern, PA

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Wealth Management is where Vanguard brings its most differentiated capabilities to life—services like personal trust, private equity, and advanced estate planning that often begin here and later enable solutions across the enterprise. Wealth Management Technology enables these offerings at scale, building platforms and experiences that are stable, scalable, and aligned to long‑term client and business outcomes.

This Engineering Manager will lead a team delivering both client‑facing solutions and the foundational platforms, tools, and workflows that help Crew serve clients effectively. The work spans multiple initiatives and depends on close partnership with stakeholders to turn complex, cross‑cutting problems into clear, incremental deliveries.

Success in this role comes from strong judgment: making tradeoffs across cost, time, risk, and value while staying anchored to a long‑term vision. You’ll help partners separate must‑have capabilities from nice‑to‑have enhancements, bring structure to ambiguity, and create the conditions for predictable delivery across a complex ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities

• Leads, coaches, and develops a team of engineers. Establishes clear performance expectations, provides ongoing feedback, and supports career growth.

• Accountable for team’s initiative delivery through prioritization, road mapping, assignment while accounting for risks and dependencies.

• Applies a strong technical skillset to engage meaningfully with the team’s work. Guides solution design, supports engineering decision-making, reviews technical approaches, and provides practical coaching to engineers.

• Fosters a culture of learning, adaptability, and continuous improvement. Encourages experimentation, reflection, and the evolution of engineering and delivery practices.

• Supports healthy team dynamics and effective collaboration. Reinforces clear roles, working agreements, and sustainable team rhythms that enable consistent performance.

• Identifies and resolves impediments that affect delivery, quality, or team effectiveness. Escalates complex issues to IT experts as needed and simplifies constraints to maintain momentum

• Partners closely with product leaders, technical leaders, and business stakeholders to clarify priorities, align expectations, and ensure delivered solutions meet evolving needs.

• Promotes high standards of engineering quality, including reliability, scalability, and performance. Reinforces sound development and testing practices.

• Participates in departmental planning, staffing discussions, and operational initiatives. Contributes to improving engineering practices and organizational effectiveness.

• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering and delivery, including hands-on software development experience.

• Can coach and enable teams toward best practices with regard to software development delivery (SDLC).

• Strong expertise in IT project management, Agile methodologies, and SDLC best practices with experience in IT infrastructure, software development, and enterprise IT solutions.

• Proficiency in risk management, budgeting, and IT governance. Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and IT compliance standards.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Technical Skills

We have opportunities on our Trust and Client Experience & Alpha teams. Each with their own unique requirements.

• Trust: Java / Spring, Python, AWS (ECS, lambda, dynamo), vendor integration experience a plus

• Client Experience & Alpha: Hands on experience with modern full stack development (e.g TypeScript, Node, React/Angular), AWS (ECS, lambda, dynamo).

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our 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.