Technical Lead - Fraud Risk Services

Fraud Risk Services Team Role

Looking for a role where you can help manage and mitigate risk across lines of business? The Fraud Risk Services team is responsible for all fraud prevention tools that support the enterprise. We are on a quest to integrate and mature fraud prevention which involves working to get the latest fraud threat intel, build out tech to support fraud strategy, and work with teams all over the company to stop bad actors from exploiting our clients. This role will have the opportunity to have influence on application architecture and design, as well as the opportunity to work cross functionally to deliver projects with the most critical client facing teams. Our applications are primarily written in Javascript/Typescript and are a 10%/90% frontend/backend mix.

Core Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options and approves the team’s technical deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies. 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.
• Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned. Contributes code & technical design to the Fraud Prevention Technical Stack in the capacity of an expert/staff level individual contributor.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight years of development experience, previous lead experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Recent functional experience building and maintaining applications utilizing AWS.
• Recent functional experience using Javascript/Typescript to build backend components and APIs.
• A strong sense of ownership & client-centric mindset.
• Experience supporting client facing products.
• Experience with machine learning and/or generative AI preferred.

Special Factors:

Sponsorship: Vanguard is not 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. 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.