Technology Manager, Investment Data Systems

Vanguard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an experienced Technology Manager to lead globally distributed engineering teams building data platforms and pipelines. You will ensure data is accurate, secure, well governed, and accessible to downstream consumers, while aligning product, architecture, and business partners.

You will drive cloud-native delivery using Python, Java, and AWS, with a strong emphasis on leadership, governance, and delivery in a fast-changing environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience delivering data platforms and cloud-native services.
• Strong leadership and ability to align product, architecture and business partners.
• Familiarity with Agile development and DevOps lifecycle.
• Experience with data governance and AI-enabled tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible, supportive leadership and develop high-performing teams.
• Recruit, onboard, and grow talent to meet capability needs.
• Partner with technical leads to drive engineering excellence and delivery.
• Ensure data platforms are scalable, secure, and well-governed for downstream use.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools to improve productivity and quality.
• Communicate priorities, risks and resource needs to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

People leadership

Agile development

Global stakeholder management

Education

Degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Python

Java

AWS

Job description

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Technology Manager to lead globally distributed engineering teams building platforms that enable Vanguard’s investment and product data capabilities. This is a people-first role, managing teams of talented individuals who build capabilities that acquire, manage, enrich, and distribute data across the firm, ensuring it is accurate, secure, well governed, and readily accessible to downstream consumers.

The role is accountable for the delivery of cloud-native technology services including data ingestion pipelines, APIs and operational workflow capabilities, built using Python, Java, and AWS. The successful candidate will have strong people leadership skills, sound technical judgement with the ability to align product, architecture, business, and other technology partners through significant growth and transformational change.

In this role you will

Core Responsibilities

• People Leadership & Team Development
• Provide visible, supportive, and accountable leadership, creating an inclusive, high-performing culture built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Set clear expectations and strengthen performance, engagement, and retention through coaching, feedback, development, and succession planning
• Recruit, onboard, and develop talent to meet current and future capability needs
• Partner with technical leads and architects to create a culture of engineering excellence within the teams
• Ensure data platforms and services are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and support accurate, secure, well-governed, and readily accessible data for downstream consumers
• Drive continuous improvement and responsible adoption of AI-enabled engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, testing, documentation, and delivery
• Understand project objectives, dependencies, and risks, and translate priorities into clear team expectations and delivery commitments
• Lead confidently through ambiguity and change, ensuring teams have the capacity, skills, clarity, and support to deliver
• Work across product, business, delivery, and technology teams to anticipate risks, resolve impediments, and improve delivery flow
• Build trusted partnerships with business, product, architecture, and technology leaders to shape priorities and improve technology products and services
• Communicate priorities, risks, resource needs, and organisational challenges clearly, influencing alignment across competing stakeholder interests
• Represent team’s perspectives in leadership and strategic planning sessions
• Ensure compliance with technology, security, risk, and governance requirements while strengthening service reliability, operational readiness, and incident management
• Contribute to workforce planning, organisational design, and strategy, connecting team priorities to broader business, technology, and investment-data objectives

What It Takes

• Degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent training and experience
• Agile Development experience, and a clear understanding of the full dev ops cycle
• Experience delivering data platforms and services, ideally using event-driven, cloud-native architectures using modern programming languages (Python, Java etc.)
• Experience with application development for a global user base
• Experience of Agile development, the full DevOps lifecycle, data governance, and modern engineering practices
• Good understanding of AI-enabled engineering tools and their responsible use across the software development lifecycle
• Financial industry experience (buy side and/or sell side) preferred

Special Factors

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position
• This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)
• Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this role early if there is a high level of interest. To avoid missing out, we recommend applying as soon as possible

Why Vanguard?

Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.

This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments.

It's what we stand for: value to investors.

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.

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.