Core Responsibilities

1. Provides expert level IT technical lead services and direction for critical software, middleware, or hardware projects on multiple platforms. Provides technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.

2. Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team’s technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.

3. Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Responds to and resolves technical issues in a timely manner. Researches issues and performs root cause analysis. Anticipates technology problems and prevents them.

4. Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas.

5. Maintains a current and working knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff and identifies training needs. As new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members.

6. Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.

7. Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.

8. Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.

9. Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.

10. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

11. Responsible for leading IGA Operations technical team ensuring business alignment and availability.

Qualifications

• Experience must include advanced SailPoint Identity IQ expertise including demonstrated ability to develop and debug custom code, workflows & configurations.
• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least five years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Other Special Skills or Requirements:

- Provide architectural guidance for SailPoint Engineering development teams.

- Work with Information Security IAM business partners to define business requirements and identify security improvements.

- Expert Java level development, design, and debugging skills.

- Advanced database knowledge including design relational database table schema, create advanced SQL queries for both selecting and updating data, gather usage statistics to determine DB load.

- SQL and Python scripting including utilizing scripting solutions to automate monitoring activities.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don’t just have a mission—we’re on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients’ lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Vanguard’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is central to our ability to deliver on our mission. We aspire to create a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and diverse—one that enables our employees, whom we call crew, to thrive and bring their best selves to work every day on behalf of our clients.

Cultivating DEI lifts our entire organization, and everyone shares accountability for our progress—from our senior leaders who lay the foundation and set the example for inclusive behaviors to crew who are growing in their personal DEI learning experiences.

Together, we’re on a mission. We are fueled by the value of diverse voices and connected through friendships and a culture of care—for our clients, our communities, and each other.    

Vanguard’s DEI journey has no finish line. Our commitment is enduring, and we remain focused on the path ahead. To learn more about Vanguard goals and progress toward DEI, download our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report.

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.