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The Vanguard Group Application Engineering Technical Lead in Malvern, Pennsylvania
Application Engineering Technical Lead (The Vanguard Group, Inc. / Malvern, PA) -- Provide expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms; provide technical expertise and complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities; ensure viability of IT deliverables; recommend development options and approve team's technical deliverables; conduct testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security; identify potential solutions and approve technical solutions proposed by team members; elevate complex technical issues to IT experts; resolve technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients; respond to and resolve technical issues in a timely manner; research issues and perform root cause analysis; anticipate technology problems and prevent them; communicate with key stakeholders on project issues and implications; evaluate impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuade and influence others on ideas; maintain current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards; mentor IT staff and identify training needs; as new standards are instituted, ensure their usage by team members; review and approve documentation and diagrams created by IT team members; write documentation, including technical standards and processes; identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies; participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues; participate as a technical consultant at other project meetings; present technical status and issues at milestone reviews; utilize thorough understanding and compliance with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures and verify that deliverables meet requirements. Requires Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronic(s) Engineering, Information Technology, or closely related IT field and five years of experience in job offered or in IT positions including Web Developer and/or Technical Architect and/or Associate Consultant. Background in education, training or experience must include experience with Amazon Web Services, including AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB; Data Modeling for relational and NoSQL databases; Technical architecture design and solution; Cloud security; Python; Apache Spark; Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, and SQL. Company operates on hybrid model with three days in office and work-from-home available two days.