The Vanguard Group

Project Contractor We're looking for a Lead Solutions Architect to drive the architecture and evolution of our Marketing Technology (Martech) ecosystem. This is a high-impact role where you'll shape the future of customer engagement, working at the intersection of digital experience, AI, and scalable cloud platforms. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to define innovative, scalable, and future ready solutions that support our strategic growth. What You'll Be Doing Own and evolve Martech architecture and product roadmaps, aligning with business strategy and enterprise architecture. Lead the design of scalable, integrated solutions across customer experience platforms, conversational AI, and automation. Collaborate with product teams, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver seamless, customer centric solutions. Drive alignment with enterprise architecture standards, governance, and technology roadmaps. Act as the technical authority, guiding teams through complex design decisions, risk mitigation, and solution optimisation. Evaluate new technologies, vendors, and platforms, contributing to build vs buy decisions and long term strategy. Support and enhance architecture governance and best practices across the organisation. Stay ahead of emerging Martech, AI, and cloud trends, bringing innovation into the business. Mentor engineers and architects, helping to build a high performing, forward thinking technology team. What it takes Significant experience in technology roles, including 3+ years as a Solutions/Technical Architect. Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise scale Martech or customer experience platforms. Strong knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP), Microservices, APIs, and modern integration patterns. DevOps and Agile/SAFe delivery models. Experience with Adobe ecosystem (e.g. Adobe Experience Cloud). Hands on expertise in conversational AI (e.g. Kore.ai) and intelligent automation. Strong understanding of architecture governance, risk management, and compliance. Experience in vendor selection, build vs buy analysis, and ROI/TCO evaluation. Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across both technical and business audiences. Benefits Competitive salary + benefits + flexible working. Work on cutting edge Martech and AI driven customer platforms. Play a key role in shaping enterprise wide digital and customer experience strategy. Collaborate with high performing product and engineering teams. Opportunity to lead architectural direction and influence senior stakeholders. Special Factors: Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. This position is hybrid and would require you to be in our office 3 days per week. 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: to take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

The Vanguard Group is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect based in Manchester to drive the architecture and evolution of our Marketing Technology (Martech) ecosystem. This high-impact role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design innovative solutions that shape our customer engagement strategy. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in technology roles, including 3+ years as a Solutions or Technical Architect. A competitive salary and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge Martech platforms are included.

Project Contractor In the European Client Identity team, we are building and operating Vanguard's authentication and MFA platform used by hundreds of thousands of clients across the UK and Europe. This is a hands on senior full stack role focused on designing, building, deploying, and operating cloud based identity services. You will contribute across backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, and frontend experiences - with React as the preferred frontend framework for new UI work. You will work in a highly regulated environment where security, reliability, and operational discipline matter. You don't need to be an identity expert on day one, but you do need strong full stack fundamentals, cloud experience, and a responsible, methodical engineering mindset. What You'll Do Build and evolve backend services that support login, MFA, and client authentication Design and implement REST APIs using NestJS / TypeScript Build frontend experiences using React where new UI development is required Integrate with identity and MFA platforms (e.g. Transmit Security, Auth0) Deploy and operate services on AWS, using Infrastructure as Code Run and maintain services in production, including database migrations and updates, and vendor specific software services running in AWS Write automated tests and contribute to improving test coverage and quality Participate in CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and operational procedures Work closely with product and security stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions Continuously improve engineering standards, tooling, and reliability What We're Looking For (Must Have) Strong backend engineering fundamentals with Node.js and NestJS or Express TypeScript across frontend and backend Experience designing and building REST APIs Understanding of authentication protocols: OAuth 2.0, JWT, MFA flows Hands on experience with AWS (ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, Secrets Manager) Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform) Experience with containerised workloads (Docker) Strong Git practices and CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or similar) Experience writing unit and integration tests (Jest) Nice to Have React experience for frontend development - preferred for any new UI work Experience with identity, authentication, or MFA systems Familiarity with Kong API Gateway or similar Exposure to Aurora PostgreSQL or DynamoDB Knowledge of microservices architectures Exposure to security concepts (IAM, encryption, networking) Experience with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Grafana) Experience in regulated or enterprise environments Our Tech Stack AWS TypeScript React Node.js (NestJS) REST APIs Auth0 Transmit Security Kong Gateway GitHub GitHub Actions CloudFormation 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.

The Vanguard Group is seeking a Project Contractor to join the European Client Identity team, focusing on cloud-based identity services. This hands-on role involves designing, building, and deploying services for client authentication used across the UK and Europe. The successful candidate will work with backend and frontend technologies, ensuring security and reliability in a regulated environment. A hybrid working model is offered, allowing for flexibility and collaboration.

Role Summary This role manages teams responsible for risk-based audit and advisory engagements across aligned technology division(s) and functional area(s) to evaluate the internal control environment. This role also oversees audit execution for IT infrastructure, systems, and processes, ensuring security, compliance, and operational resilience. Responsibilities Hire, evaluate, and supervise crew. Provide mentorship and training as necessary to develop crew. Set performance standards, review performance, and make informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures. Serve as a trusted advisor and consultant to the department and technology leaders to share knowledge and perspective on topics related to governance, risk, control, and areas of expertise. Manage technology audit and consulting engagements to ensure the timely delivery of the highest quality work and value add recommendations. Assist multiple engagement teams concurrently working in a matrixed team environment. Deliver technology industry expertise and perspective to the team and business management. Support completing the related annual/ongoing risk assessments and creation of the audit and consulting plan for the aligned division(s) / functional area(s). Communicate and clearly articulate the objectives, status and results of assigned work to various levels of management. Influence technology management to act on recommendations to strengthen the control environment and make process improvements. Establish and maintain relationships with management across aligned technology division(s) and functional area(s) and risk partners. Develop a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the processes, issues, pertinent regulations and risks associated with engagement scope. Assess the adequacy of the technology control environment, identify control gaps and opportunities for continuous improvement. Perform audit work and analysis on complex audit areas. Provide opinions on audit and consulting findings, ratings and recommendations to senior management. Set clear expectations for the team and provide feedback to develop team members. Leverage team skills for collaboration and timely completion of work. Develop and drive innovation and efficiencies by challenging the status quo and employing agile, analytics and new ways of working, including AI and automation. Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned. Requirements Proven related work experience with technology audit, risk, or controls (i.e., operational audits, internal audits, advisory/consulting, controls/compliance/legal); people leadership experience preferred. Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. IT degree or concentration preferred. Graduate degree preferred. CIA, CISSP, CCSP, CEH, CompTIA Security+, GSEC, CISA, PMP, ITIL, AWS Cloud Architect, or other professional designation preferred. IT expertise and experience in one or more areas (e.g., applications, cloud, network, cybersecurity, access control, vulnerability management, automation and artificial intelligence). Demonstrated ability to work in a complex, dynamic, and fast paced environment with strong inherent project execution skills, including prioritizing tasks, balancing workload between multiple projects, anticipating next steps, adapting to changing situations and project scope. Excellent relationship skills and client focused mindset; demonstrated influencing skills. Data analytics literacy and leadership, with the ability to advance the team's learning curve, drive adoption, and ensure effective deployment of analytics and AI capabilities in audit processes. Special Factors Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position. This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the London office Tuesday Thursday. Equal Employment Opportunity 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. Our commitment to equal employment opportunity is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Vanguard.

The Vanguard Group in Greater London is seeking an experienced manager to oversee teams responsible for risk-based audits and advisory engagements. This role involves managing audit execution for IT infrastructure and ensuring compliance and operational resilience. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in technology audit, strong leadership skills, and an undergraduate degree, preferably in IT. This hybrid position requires office attendance in London three days a week.