Automation Developer, Specialist

About Vanguard

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology teams to understand business processes, identify automation opportunities, and translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support production automation and workflow solutions using approved enterprise technologies.
• Develop scalable and maintainable applications that align with established architecture, security, data, testing, and delivery standards.
• Build and support integrations with enterprise platforms, shared services, APIs, and data sources.
• Monitor application performance and operational effectiveness, troubleshoot production issues, and implement appropriate resolutions.
• Maintain technical documentation covering solution design, integrations, processes, support requirements, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate across business, technology, risk, and control teams to communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and technical considerations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of automation solutions, development standards, and engineering practices.
• Participate in technology initiatives and special projects aligned with broader business and technology objectives.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience developing, testing, implementing, or supporting software, automation, workflow, or related technology solutions.
• Experience with software development practices, troubleshooting, testing, and production support.
• Experience with or demonstrated ability to work with workflow or automation platforms, cloud services, programming languages, APIs, and integration technologies.
• Ability to analyze business processes and translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, developers, product owners, and other technology partners.
• Ability to work through ambiguous requirements, evaluate technical options, and make sound implementation decisions.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.
• Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Preferred

• Experience developing enterprise automation or workflow solutions, preferred.
• Experience integrating applications with APIs, enterprise platforms, cloud services, or shared data sources, preferred.