Marketing Data Platforms Technical Leadership

Vanguard Group, Inc.; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Group, Inc. in Malvern, PA, seeks an experienced data engineering leader to drive complex data platforms and pipelines across multi-cloud environments.

You will guide architecture, code reviews, and security considerations while mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates have 8+ years building data systems, strong CI/CD practices, and hands-on work with Python, SQL, Spark, and cloud-native data patterns.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience building and operating data platforms or large-scale data pipelines.
• Marketing data domain knowledge including customer interaction data usage across digital channels.
• Experience with CDP, Identity Resolution, customer profiles, and privacy-aware data collaboration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Provides expert IT lead services for complex software, middleware, or hardware projects across platforms; designs and maintains architectures.
• Ensures viability of IT deliverables; reviews, tests, and approves technical deliverables.
• Identifies solutions, mentors team members, and performs root-cause analysis for technical issues.
• Communicates project issues and implications to stakeholders; evaluates change requests.
• Maintains knowledge of IT development methodologies and standards; mentors staff and enforces usage of standards.
• Reviews documentation and diagrams; writes technical standards and processes.
• Suggests continuous quality improvements of standards and technologies.
• Participates in design, code, and test inspections; presents status at milestones.
• Complies with IT and information security policies; ensures deliverables meet requirements.
• Participates in special projects and other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud data platforms

CI/CD

Python

SQL

Spark/Scala

APIs & microservices

Data governance

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Git

Maven

Cucumber

Bamboo/Jenkins

Job description

Core Responsibilities:

1. Provides expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provides technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.

2. Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team’s technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.

3. Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. . Responds to and resolves technical issues in a timely manner. Researches issues and performs root cause analysis. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them.

4. Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.

5. Maintains a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff and identifies training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members.

6. Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.

7. Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.

8. Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.

9. Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.

10. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, with at least 3 years of hands-on development experience building and operating data platforms or large-scale data pipelines.
• Some marketing data domain knowledge, including how customer interaction data is used for activation, personalization, measurement, and analytics across digital channels.
• Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Identity Resolution, customer profiles, and privacy-aware data collaboration patterns (e.g., clean rooms) preferred.
• Solid understanding of big data and streaming architectures used for segmentation, audience building, and real-time activation.
• Strong grounding in modern engineering practices, including DataOps, CloudOps, CI/CD, and automated testing; experience with tools such as Git, Maven, Cucumber, Bamboo/Jenkins, and similar pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native data platforms and patterns (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including serverless and distributed data processing.
• Proficiency in data engineering and analytics languages and frameworks, such as Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, and related ecosystems.
• Experience designing and building distributed, scalable, and resilient data pipelines, with a clear focus on data quality, observability, and reliability.
• Strong product mindset - able to translate business needs into durable, scalable engineering solutions rather than one-off implementations.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs and microservices for data access and activation, including RESTful services and cloud API management platforms (e.g., AWS API Gateway).
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and privacy-by-design principles, especially when working with customer and identity data.
• Willingness and enthusiasm for learning and experimenting with new technology, tools and processes and setting Vanguard-wide standards.
• Willingness and enthusiasm for experimenting with new tools and processes and setting Vanguard-wide standards.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, develop, and lead junior team members in the effective use of technology and system, providing technical guidance and design reviews, and helping engineers grow in system thinking and architecture skills,
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, and business teams
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results while working in a cross-functional environment

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

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.