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Vanguard1 week ago

Investment Systems Application Engineer - III

Hybrid · Charlotte, North Carolina, United States or Oakland, California, United States

Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Enterprise
Industry
FINANCE

Job Summary

Design and build automated testing frameworks for backend services, data pipelines, and investment workflows; develop regression testing, scenario validation, and deterministic validation suites for portfolio calculations, tax logic, and trading workflows; create reusable testing tools, harnesses, and datasets (e.g., golden datasets, synthetic data generation); integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation; implement controls-by-design to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of investment workflows; build validation layers that detect data anomalies, workflow breaks, and calculation discrepancies; ensure traceability and reproducibility of results to meet audit and regulatory expectations; support development of validation frameworks for portfolio construction, tax-loss harvesting, and analytics pipelines; contribute to backend services or data pipelines to enable testability, observability, and validation hooks; develop supporting APIs, utilities, or UI components that aid in testing, debugging, and workflow validation; improve system instrumentation to enable better monitoring and validation; build and run validation frameworks on AWS using scalable, cloud-native patterns; integrate testing tools into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows; contribute to observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to support validation and issue diagnosis; participate in design, code, and test reviews to ensure quality is built in early; support defect identification, triage, and root cause analysis; contribute to production validation, reconciliation checks, and post-release verification; ensure solutions comply with information security and technology policies; sponsorship provided for visa as noted in Special Factors.

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