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Vanguard Senior Technical Project Manager in Malvern, Pennsylvania
This team serves the data and analytics needs of the Personal Investor business. Personal investor serves Vanguard's clients including high net worth, advisor clients, and small businesses—by providing advice, brokerage, and annuity products and services. As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will lead this team through a critical multi-year technology portfolio modernization journey.
In this role, you will:
Manage all data and analytics workstreams for our Modernization program. Ensure that the scope of the projects within the broader transformation or program align with business priorities and that business value is properly measured for prioritization.
Develop and maintain broad knowledge and awareness of Financial Services industry forces, competition, and trends to assess viability of approaches and strategies to technology-related programs. Monitor financial, legal, and other regulatory environments to ensure strategies are aligned with the overall company strategy and market conditions.
Communicate with stakeholders, leaders, team members, management, and department partners to ensure that requirements and priorities are understood. Monitor project progress and results and submits regular status reports to management and internal and external stakeholders. Ensure the development and execution of change management and communication plans.
Build and maintain relationships across program stakeholders and proactively foster effective communication between internal and external parties. Drive key decisions to ensure alignment with overarching goals across stakeholders.
Ensure all steps are taken to mitigate risk and maintain control, compliance, audit, and legal requirements on technology projects. Maintain an appropriate level of technical and business knowledge to support program implementation.
Take a data-driven approach to prioritize work and guide decision making. Supplement data with logical intrinsic knowledge. Demonstrate ability to gather data efficiently and extract necessary information to back up or refute an option.
Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
What it takes:
Minimum of eight years related business experience. Minimum of four years of technical project management experience required.
Undergraduate degree in related field (Computer Science, Engineering) required. Graduate degree preferred.
Specializations that will make an impact:
Strong understanding of the technical aspects of software development and business and data understanding.
Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Experience with AWS technologies is desired or good to have
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver results to meet timeline.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.
For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.
We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.
Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
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.
Vanguard, one of the world's largest investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.
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