About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard’s India Office
Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.
Role Summary
This role provides expert-level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases, and directs business assessment and requirements analysis for hardware and operating systems, while architecting complex data integration and driving system performance and scalability improvements.

Responsibilities:
Collaborate closely with business users,



product managers, and engineering partners - actively asking questions and clarifying requirements to ensure high-quality outcomes.
Design and implement Python-based microservices on AWS, using event-driven patterns tied to S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, and ECS.
Demonstrate expert-level ownership of data architecture, including, S3 buckets and Access Points, Bucket/object modelling and partitioning, DynamoDB and NoSQL data modelling, REST / GraphQL APIs, Encryption/KMS policies, High-throughput performance considerations
Integrate S3 and DynamoDB with event-driven compute (Lambda), orchestrated workflows (Step Functions), and container workloads (ECS).
Define and execute end-to-end testing strategies for event-driven systems, including contract testing, schema validation, replay/idempotency testing, and integration scenarios across multiple AWS services.
Work with Avro for data serializatio

📌 Application Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Vanguard
📍 Hyderabad