Application Engineer - III

We are building purpose-built applications that change how Vanguard’s International Technology (IST) leaders plan, fund, and run their organizations. This is a hands‑on engineering role at the center of that build.

Today, much of how IST manages its resource plans, budgets and financial reporting is manual and spreadsheet-driven. IST Strategy and Value is transforming from a traditional PMO into a modern, AI-enabled function - and the applications you build are the engine of that shift. You will take a working MVP of our flagship planning tool, make it production‑grade, and put it in the hands of the teams across IST who rely on it.

From there, you will build the next generation of applications that turn our data into insight and replace manual effort with automation.

You will sit within an established technical team for engineering support and career growth, while spending the majority of your time building for IST Strategy and Value. Requirements will come from our regional Insight Leads (who act as product owners across Canada, UK and Australia) so a large part of the role is translating real needs into well‑built software.

• Own and grow our flagship tool. Take ownership of our flagship planning application (an existing MVP) and evolve it into a robust, production‑grade tool used across IST.
• Build the next tools. Design, build and ship new applications that make our financial and workforce data easier to explore, and that automate reporting we do today by hand.
• Build with AI. Use AI-assisted development as a core part of how you build
• Partner closely. Partner with our regional Insight Leads to turn priorities into working features; demo early and often.
• Run what you build. Own the full stack for your applications — front end, back end, database and the AWS environment they run in — including scheduled jobs and follow‑up production support.

• Independent builder. A capable full‑stack engineer who can work independently and take a product from idea to production.
• Modern full‑stack development. Experience building applications using Angular (or similar front‑end frameworks), Java/Spring Boot (or equivalent backend technologies), REST APIs, and SQL databases.
• AWS development experience. Comfortable building and supporting cloud‑native solutions in AWS, including serverless or container‑based architectures. Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and automated deployment pipelines is a plus.
• AI‑native. Uses AI coding tools fluently as part of a modern development workflow.

• Experience with data lakes / data engineering — a significant plus as our data platform matures. (This is not a data‑engineering role, and does not involve building pipelines, but data‑lake fluency will help you build on top of it.)
• Exposure to financial planning, budgeting or workforce/resource planning domains.
• Experience with reporting automation or replacing spreadsheet-based processes.

• Provides senior level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases. Integrates third party products.
• Translates technical specifications into code for complex new or enhancement projects for internal clients. Writes programs, develops code, tests artifacts, and produces reports. Employs software development techniques to ensure tests are implemented in a way that support automation.
• Elevates code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provides follow up production support. Submits change control requests and documents.
• Thoroughly understands software development methodology. Thoroughly understands development architecture standards. Trains and mentors staff with less experience. Resolves elevated…