About Vanguard
Vanguard Australia has been helping investors achieve their long-term financial goals for over 30 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:
Driving engineering excellence across Adobe, SFMC, AWS Experience technologies, and Public Websites.
Partnering with IT, Marketing, and senior stakeholders across Vanguard Global teams to deliver strategic outcomes.
Advancing Vanguard’s mission by enabling Marketing through secure, scalable, and innovative technology solutions.
We are seeking a Systems Integration Engineer to build and maintain resilient, loosely coupled integrations across a distributed MarTech and Public Web ecosystem.
This role is focused on TypeScript/Node.js development, contract first integration design, and automated testing to enable safe, scalable system evolution. You’ll play a critical role in ensuring our platforms can evolve independently while remaining reliable, secure, and observable.
You’ll work closely with engineers, architects, and platform teams across Marketing Technology, Public Web, Data, and Core Systems to define clear, versioned contracts and deliver event driven, asynchronous integrations.
You will foster a security-first mindset, champion engineering excellence, and mentor peers to build a high-performing, inclusive team. Our team values curiosity, innovation, and collaboration. You will be rewarded for driving outcomes, leading initiatives, and enabling others to succeed.
What You Will Do
Design, build, and maintain system integrations using TypeScript (Node.js) across APIs and event driven architectures.
Implement consumer driven contract testing using Pact for REST APIs and event based integrations.
Design asynchronous, event driven integrations (SNS, SQS, EventBridge) that reduce coupling and improve system resilience.
Develop and maintain automated test suites, including unit, integration, and contract tests, embedded into CI/CD pipelines.
Partner with consuming and producing teams to define clear, versioned, contract first interfaces.
Collaborate with architects and tech leads to shape integration patterns, standards, and guardrails.
Ensure integrations meet security, reliability, and operational standards, including error handling, retries, and observability.
Support production systems by troubleshooting integration issues and continuously improving stability and performance.
Contribute to engineering best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams.
What We Are Looking For:
Core Technical Skills:
Handson experience building production systems in TypeScript / Node.js.
Proven experience with AWS serverless and event services, including:
Lambda
SNS / SQS
EventBridge
Practical experience implementing consumer driven contract testing (Pact).
Solid understanding of API design, versioning, and backward compatible evolution.
Strong testing mindset with experience building automated test suites.
Specializations That'll Make an Impact
Experience integrating with or working alongside Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) or Adobe Experience Platform.
Experience of working with Marketing Teams and Martech Stacks - Adobe CDP, SFMC etc
Strong understanding of decoupled, asynchronous integration patterns and distributed systems design.
Experience working with Angular and/or ReactJS in modern web applications.
Familiarity with Github workflows, Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud observability tools.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing."
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.
Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
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.
