Technical Lead

Technical Lead Opportunity

Join a dynamic leadership team working on one of Vanguard and IIG’s top strategic imperatives! Serve as a critical leader in driving an integrated business led, technology enabled strategic transformation. The IIG transformation is the largest effort of its kind ever undertaken by Vanguard. We have a high impact opportunity for a Technical Lead, leveraging strong software development experience to drive cloud native development and transformation of IIG's Full-Service systems. The individual in this role will directly partner across the Vanguard enterprise (GTO, CTO, ES&F, SI and Business) as well as with key functions across vendor organizations. This individual plays a critical role in end-to-end enablement of the future of the IIG Business.

Provides expert level IT technical lead services, including the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team's technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes
• Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• 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.
• Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.