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 hands‑on and delivery‑focused, with an emphasis on TypeScript / Node.js development, automated testing, and learning how to build and support secure, reliable integrations in a modern, cloud‑based environment. You will work closely with senior engineers, tech leads, and architects while building practical experience across APIs, event‑driven integrations, and cloud services, gradually taking on increasing responsibility as your capability grows.
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
Engineering & Integration Development
Develop and enhance system integrations using TypeScript / Node.js under guidance from senior engineers.
Contribute to integrations using REST APIs and event‑driven patterns, following established standards and designs.
Implement changes safely by following contract‑first principles and versioned interfaces.
Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to team coding and security standards.
Testing & Quality
Write and maintain unit tests and integration tests as part of day‑to‑day development.
Contribute to automated test suites, embedded within CI/CD pipelines.
Learn and apply consumer‑driven contract testing approaches where applicable.
Participate in code reviews to improve code quality and consistency.
Security & Reliability
Apply secure coding practices in development, including safe handling of data, dependencies, and credentials.
Support the reliability of integrations by implementing appropriate error handling and logging.
Assist in investigating and debugging issues in distributed systems, including production incidents, with support from senior team members.
Collaboration & Learning
Work closely with other engineers, platform teams, and delivery partners to understand integration requirements.
Learn established integration patterns, AWS services, and MarTech platforms used across the organisation.
Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.
Actively seek feedback and coaching to grow technical and professional capability.
What We Are Looking For:
Core Technical Skills:
TypeScript/Node.js: Hands‑on experience building production applications using TypeScript and Node.js.
Testing: Practical experience with unit testing and integration testing.
Secure Coding: Awareness of secure coding practices and how to apply them in development.
Debugging: Ability to investigate and debug issues, including in multi‑service or distributed systems.
Approximately 3–5 years of industry experience in a software engineering role.
Good‑to‑Have Experience
Exposure to AWS serverless services, such as: Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB
Familiarity with frontend frameworks: Angular, React, or Next.js
Familiarity with Nest.js
Experience contributing to endtoend / automation testing
Basic familiarity with GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines, or cloud monitoring tools.
Exposure to MarTech platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Platform, or SFMC.
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.
