The APAC Marketing Technology (MarTech) team is responsible for:
• Being the in-region technology team with deep expertise to develop and maintain our Adobe, SFMC, and AWS Experience technology and Public Websites.
• Partnering with IT, Marketing, and key business stakeholders both in-region and across Vanguard Global teams to drive engineering excellence and delivery of key priorities.
• Propelling Vanguard's mission by enabling Marketing through advancing technology solutions as well as assisting the adoption of existing platforms.
We are looking for a MarTech Application Engineer to play a crucial role in in teams day to day operations through the optimisation of our marketing technologies. You will work with cross-functional teams to design, develop, deliver, and maintain operationally efficient, robust, and resilient systems that align with our MarTech and Marketing strategy.
You will ensure the efficient use of MarTech tools, drive automation, and maximise the overall effectiveness and efficiency of our marketing efforts. As a senior engineer, you will empower your team members, value the team's success, and mentor and coach your fellow engineers.
Our team is highly energised, supportive, curious, and innovative. You will be rewarded for thinking outside the box, following big ideas through, and leaning in to help your teammates achieve our goals.
At Vanguard, we are passionate about your career. With a constant focus on development opportunities and personal growth, we are driven to ensure you—and in turn our clients—achieve success.
About Vanguard
Vanguard Australia has been helping investors achieve their long-term financial goals for over 20 years. Serving institutional and individual clients, and financial advisers, we offer investment solutions that are low-cost, diversified, and robust through time. With more than AUD $15 trillion in assets under management, Vanguard is one of the world's largest global investment management companies. In Australia, we partner with institutional clients, financial advisers, and individual investors to offer low-cost investment solutions. Our comprehensive range of managed funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and tailored investment solutions are built to support long-term investment success for our clients.
Our Team & Opportunity
The APAC Marketing Technology (MarTech) team is responsible for:
- Being the in-region technology team with deep expertise to develop and maintain our Adobe, SFMC, and AWS Experience technology and Public Websites.
- Partnering with IT, Marketing, and key business stakeholders both in-region and across Vanguard Global teams to drive engineering excellence and delivery of key priorities.
- Propelling Vanguard's mission by enabling Marketing through advancing technology solutions as well as assisting the adoption of existing platforms.
We are looking for a MarTech Application Engineer to play a crucial role in in teams day to day operations through the optimisation of our marketing technologies. You will work with cross-functional teams to design, develop, deliver, and maintain operationally efficient, robust, and resilient systems that align with our MarTech and Marketing strategy.
You will ensure the efficient use of MarTech tools, drive automation, and maximise the overall effectiveness and efficiency of our marketing efforts. As a senior engineer, you will empower your team members, value the team's success, and mentor and coach your fellow engineers.
Our team is highly energised, supportive, curious, and innovative. You will be rewarded for thinking outside the box, following big ideas through, and leaning in to help your teammates achieve our goals.
At Vanguard, we are passionate about your career. With a constant focus on development opportunities and personal growth, we are driven to ensure you—and in turn our clients—achieve success.
What You Will Do
- Lead the implementation and management of Martech platform enhancements, new integrations, and platform configurations.
- Administer operations of our MarTech platforms, partnering closely with Tech and Data leads to ensure optimal reliability and performance measurement.
- Engineer cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services.
- Support the complete software lifecycle including DevOps and CI/CD.
- Provide leadership and guidance to continuously improve development and support processes.
- Maintain high standards of coding and documentation, develop automated tests using TDD, and participate in code reviews.
- Assist Tech leads on team in driving Marketing Technology strategy and vision in partnering with Marketing teams.
- Lead in continuous efforts towards maturing, building and maintaining marketing platforms such as Adobe suite of tools, SFMC journeys.
- Partner in assigning work and working alongside sourcing and global teams
- Deliver software releases relating to the product for the business units. Work with business clients to determine scope and develop environmental requirements for each project.
- Ensures compliance with information technology and information security policies and procedures and verify that deliverables meet requirements.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
What We Are Looking For:
Core Technical Skills:
- Extensive experience with AWS Cloud technologies (IAM, Secrets Manager, S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Glue, ECS).
- Deep understanding of REST APIs and system integration.
- Development experience in one or more scripting languages (Python, Javascript, Typescript, Angular, React).
- Familiarity with marketing automation platforms such as Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, CDP, AJO, CJA, Target, Launch.
- Familiarity with DevOps concepts, tools, and continuous delivery pipelines - GitHub, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow.
- Knowledge of cloud development/engineering best practices at enterprise level.
Specializations That'll Make an Impact
- Experience with Adobe AEP products, experience with AEM or Content Management Systems and marketing automation platforms.
- Experience with data engineering and analytics platforms.
- Exposure to application security, microservices, and API design.
- Passion for mentoring and enabling engineering excellence.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and agile delivery practices.
- Experience in architecture and design of marketing, advertising, and data platforms (e.g., SFMC, Adobe).
- Full-Stack development experience - Java, Spring,Angular, and DB technologies.
- Database skills - Oracle, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB.
- Ability to learn and apply knowledge of Amazon Services: Amazon API Gateway, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, SNS, Lambda, AWS RDS (DynamoDB, Postgres, Aurora), CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
- A deep intellectual curiosity and learning agility; stays on the forefront of business and technology solutions, especially API and microservice design, application security, and Front-End/UI development.
How We Work
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.
