Manager, Data Engineering

Vanguard Group, Inc.

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in data analytics, programming, database administration, or data management.
  • Proven leadership in managing data engineering teams delivering production-ready platforms.
  • Expertise in modern data architectures and cloud data ecosystems (e.g., AWS).
  • Demonstrated success in enhancing engineering quality and reliability at scale.
  • Experience with batch and event-driven data pipelines and data modeling for large datasets.
  • Strong background in data platforms that cater to ML and GenAI applications.
  • Educational background includes an undergraduate degree; a graduate degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of data engineers to develop robust data pipelines and platforms.
  • Drive engineering excellence through best practices in code quality and incident management.
  • Collaborate with product and analytics to ensure high-impact data use cases are prioritized.
  • Oversee production support, incident response, and systematic improvements to data systems.
  • Establish and promote DataOps practices across development and operations teams.
  • Enable cross-departmental collaboration for developing personalized and analytic data products.
  • Recruit and mentor data engineering talent, fostering professional growth.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Full Job Description
Advice & Wealth Management Technology (AWMT) is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering scalable data platforms and products that power personalized financial advice.

You will own delivery, engineering standards, and talent development while partnering across product, analytics, and ML teams to enable production-grade data and GenAI capabilities.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead a team of data engineers to build and operate scalable, reliable data pipelines and platforms
  • Drive engineering excellence (code quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident management)
  • Partner with product and analytics to prioritize and deliver high-impact data use cases
  • Own production support, incident response, and continuous improvement of data systems
  • Establish and scale DataOps practices across development and operations
  • Collaborate across AWMT D&A to enable data products that support personalization and analytics
  • Hire, develop, and grow engineering talent and future tech leads
  • End-to-end delivery and operation of data pipelines and platforms supporting advice products
  • Engineering quality, reliability, and standardization across your team
  • Talent development for data engineers and tech leads
  • Cross-team alignment with product, analytics, and ML engineering
  • Improving reliability and observability of production data pipelines
  • Driving adoption of consistent pipeline frameworks and engineering standards
  • Enabling scalable data foundations for ML and GenAI use cases
  • Strengthening team execution, prioritization, and stakeholder trust


Qualifications:
  • Experience leading data engineering teams delivering production data platforms
  • Strong understanding of modern data architectures and cloud-based data ecosystems
  • Track record of improving engineering quality, reliability, and delivery at scale
  • Experience partnering with product, analytics, and ML teams
  • Demonstrated ability to develop engineers and build high-performing teams
  • Cloud-native data platforms (AWS: S3, Glue, Athena, etc.)
  • Batch and event-driven data pipelines
  • Data modeling and large-scale data processing
  • Data platforms supporting ML and GenAI use cases
  • Observability, monitoring, and operational excellence for data systems
  • Minimum of eight years data analytics, programming, database administration, or data management experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.


Nice to have:
  • Exposure to ML or GenAI data workflows
  • Financial services or regulated environment experience

Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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