Product Architect - Advice, Specialist(AWMT)

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 assists in defining application standards, processes, and best practices to provide the product advice teams with consistent solutions; this role also develops and maintains architecture roadmaps, ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant solutions across advisory platforms and services.

Technical Skills:

• Expert-level understanding of full stack application architectures (UI, services, APIs, and backend systems)
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and services (Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, Route 53, IAM, CloudFormation)
• Expert-level experience designing secure systems, including API security (OAuth, JWT, IAM policies, authorizers) and end-to-end security architecture
• Deep expertise in API design, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design, scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization
• Experience defining and enforcing architecture patterns (serverless/FaaS, concurrency, cold start optimization, multi-region design)
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and descriptor-based deployments (CloudFormation or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of observability and operational design (logging, tracing, monitoring; CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
• Ability to review and guide complex system designs without direct code contribution
• Experience evaluating and integrating emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)

Non-Technical Skills:

• Proven ability to define architecture standards and drive adoption across multiple teams
• Strong stakeholder management and influence across product, engineering, and leadership
• Experience translating business strategy into scalable technical solutions over a 6–18 month horizon
• Ability to mentor and guide tech leads and senior engineers on architecture, design patterns, and best practices
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts
• Experience working in distributed/global teams, including offshore delivery models
• Ability to identify cross-cutting opportunities for reuse, standardization, and optimization across teams
• Strong alignment to Agile practices, with experience working in Jira, Confluence, and architecture governance forums

Desired Experience:

• Prior experience in an architecture role supporting multiple teams or domains
• Experience establishing and evolving enterprise or domain-level architecture patterns
• Exposure to UI, service, and/or data modeling approaches across complex systems
• Experience with integration patterns across internal systems and third-party platforms
• Familiarity with emerging architectural patterns (GraphQL/Supergraph, event streaming, AI-enabled systems)

Desired Certifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• AWS Specialty Certifications (Security, Advanced Networking, or equivalent)

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.

Our mission

Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to you 

Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life: 

Financial wellness 
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs. 

Physical wellness 
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness. 

Personal wellness 
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life. 

How we work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (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.