Investment Systems Application Engineer – III

Vanguard

Investment Systems Application Engineer designing and building automated testing frameworks for investment workflows at Vanguard. Ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial systems through automated validation.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeCharlotte • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJavaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build automated testing frameworks for backend services, data pipelines, and end‑to‑end investment workflows
Develop regression testing, scenario validation, and deterministic validation suites for portfolio calculations, tax logic, and trading workflows
Create reusable testing tools, harnesses, and datasets (e.g., golden datasets, synthetic data generation)
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation
Implement controls‑by‑design to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of investment workflows
Build validation layers that detect data anomalies, workflow breaks, and calculation discrepancies
Ensure traceability and reproducibility of results to meet audit and regulatory expectations
Support development of validation frameworks for portfolio construction, tax‑loss harvesting, and analytics pipelines
Contribute to backend services or data pipelines to enable testability, observability, and validation hooks
Develop supporting APIs, utilities, or UI components that aid in testing, debugging, and workflow validation
Improve system instrumentation to enable better monitoring and validation
Build and run validation frameworks on AWS using scalable, cloud‑native patterns
Integrate testing tools into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Contribute to observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to support validation and issue diagnosis
Participate in design, code, and test reviews to ensure quality is built in early
Support defect identification, triage, and root cause analysis
Contribute to production validation, reconciliation checks, and post‑release verification
Ensure solutions comply with information security and technology policies

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in software engineering, test engineering, or platform engineering within investment, wealth management, or financial systems
Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or Java
Experience building automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, and end‑to‑end)
Solid understanding of investment domain concepts (portfolios, positions, transactions, tax lots, trading lifecycle, or analytics workflows)
Experience working with data‑intensive systems and validating data quality and accuracy
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Design and build automated testing frameworks for backend services, data pipelines, and end‑to‑end investment workflows
Develop regression testing, scenario validation, and deterministic validation suites for portfolio calculations, tax logic, and trading workflows
Create reusable testing tools, harnesses, and datasets (e.g., golden datasets, synthetic data generation)
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation
Implement controls‑by‑design to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of investment workflows
Build validation layers that detect data anomalies, workflow breaks, and calculation discrepancies
Ensure traceability and reproducibility of results to meet audit and regulatory expectations
Support development of validation frameworks for portfolio construction, tax‑loss harvesting, and analytics pipelines
Contribute to backend services or data pipelines to enable testability, observability, and validation hooks
Develop supporting APIs, utilities, or UI components that aid in testing, debugging, and workflow validation
Improve system instrumentation to enable better monitoring and validation
Build and run validation frameworks on AWS using scalable, cloud‑native patterns
Integrate testing tools into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Contribute to observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to support validation and issue diagnosis
Participate in design, code, and test reviews to ensure quality is built in early
Support defect identification, triage, and root cause analysis
Contribute to production validation, reconciliation checks, and post‑release verification
Ensure solutions comply with information security and technology policies 🎯 Requirements
5+ years of experience in software engineering, test engineering, or platform engineering within investment, wealth management, or financial systems
Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or Java
Experience building automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, and end‑to‑end)
Solid understanding of investment domain concepts (portfolios, positions, transactions, tax lots, trading lifecycle, or analytics workflows)
Experience working with data‑intensive systems and validating data quality and accuracy
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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaautomated testing frameworksregression testingscenario validationdeterministic validationCI/CD pipelinesdata validationAPI developmentcloud-native patterns

Soft Skills

defect identificationroot cause analysiscollaborationquality assuranceproblem-solving