This is a Application Engineer role with one of the leading companies in AU right now Vanguard Australia with an amazing team. They are continuing to grow rapidly. This is the chance to join right as the takes off. More About the Role at Vanguard Australia About Vanguard More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners. Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 25 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation Our Team & Opportunity The Investment Management Systems team services all of our Investment Management Group, consisting of the Equity Investment Group, Fixed Income Investment Group, Capital Markets, Investment Strategy Group, as well as external clients and vendors throughout the Asia-Pac region. What you will do - Provides intermediate level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases for mainframe-, client/server-, Web-, and/or PC-based software or middleware. Integrates third party products. - Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned. - Complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established milestones. Complies with all Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies deliverables meet Information Security requirements. - Understands client business functions and technology needs. Understands Vanguard's tools, technologies, and applications/databases, including those that interface with business area and systems. - Acts as a system tester for unit, integration, systems, acceptance, and related testing. Writes the test plan to ensure requirements are satisfied. - Writes the system/technical portion of assigned deliverables, including the Version Description Document. Assists technical team members with the system/technical portion of their deliverables (e.g., systems testers, test plans). On small teams, the developer may write these items. - Elevates code into the development, test, and Production environments on schedule. Provides follow up Production support. Submits change control requests and documents. - Participates in systems analysis activities, including system requirements analysis and definition. - Translates technical specifications, and/or logical and physical design into code for new or enhancement projects for internal clients. Develops code that reuses subroutines or objects, is well structured, includes sufficient comments, and is easy to maintain. Writes programs, ad hoc queries, and reports. Follows software development methodology. Follows architecture standards. - Participates in design, code, and test Inspections throughout life cycle to identify issues. Participates in other meetings, such as those for use case creation. What are we looking for - Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience, - 3 years working with full stack progressive web/web/enterprise technologies, - Knowledge of the financial services industry particularly Investment Management - A passionate developer with broad knowledge in various methodology practices and concepts: full product life cycle, Agile methodology, DevOps principals and hands on experience of multiple IT platforms and languages: AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Cloud Formation, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, EC2, AppSync, Serverless services), Java 8 and/or 9 with Spring Boot, Spring Integration, JAX-RS, Spring Batch and Spring Security, NodeJS, and JavaScript/Typescript. - A strong and in-depth understanding of cloud, CI/CD practices, and modern development practices. Tooling such as Git/GitHub, Bamboo/Jenkins, Gradle, NPM/Yarn, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarQube, etc. - Experience in setting up, operating, and monitoring a technical platform and its associated technologies. - Capability to question the status quo, challenge yourself and the business on the value that will be delivered to our customers. - Experience with API management platforms, design standards, patterns, and best practices If you don’t think you're a perfect fit, you should still sign up to Hatch and create a profile, we'll match you to other roles that suit your profile. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Vanguard Australia. ✅ Applying here is the first step in the hiring process for this role at Vanguard Australia. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability, age, or any other non-merit factors. 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