Senior Manager, Mobile Engineering - Mobile Leadership

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

As a Senior Manager, Application Engineering, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering Vanguard's next-generation mobile and digital experiences. You will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and operating enterprise-grade mobile platforms across iOS, Android, React Native, and supporting backend services.
This role combines people leadership, engineering execution, architecture oversight, and stakeholder engagement to drive scalable, secure, and high-performing technology solutions. You will partner closely with product, design, and technology leaders to deliver innovative mobile experiences while fostering a strong engineering culture focused on excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilites

Lead and Scale Engineering Teams

• Lead multiple mobile engineering teams across iOS, Android, React Native, and Node-based backend-for-frontend (BFF) platforms.
• Hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent while establishing clear performance expectations and growth opportunities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Coach engineering managers and senior engineers to strengthen leadership capability across the organisation.
• Drive employee engagement and support career development through mentoring and feedback.

Drive Delivery and Execution

• Ensure reliable, high-quality delivery of mobile products and platform capabilities at scale.
• Oversee planning, prioritisation, execution, and delivery across multiple initiatives and teams.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Architecture, and Engineering leaders to align roadmaps and business outcomes.
• Establish, monitor, and improve engineering delivery metrics, quality standards, and operational KPIs.
• Effectively manage dependencies, risks, and competing priorities across programmes and teams.

Provide Technical and Architectural Leadership

• Set direction for mobile architecture, engineering standards, and platform strategy.
• Review and approve key technical decisions to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Drive adoption of modern development practices, automation, testing strategies, and engineering tools.
• Anticipate, assess, and mitigate technical risks across multiple products and platforms.
• Guide teams in applying architecture patterns and engineering best practices to complex business challenges.

Operate and Improve Platforms

• Ensure production stability, resilience, reliability, and operational excellence across mobile applications.
• Lead root cause analysis activities and drive systemic improvements following incidents or outages.
• Promote engineering practices that improve software quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities to improve platform efficiency, developer productivity, and time-to-market.

Stakeholder Engagement and Influence

• Communicate clearly and effectively with senior stakeholders regarding priorities, progress, risks, and strategic initiatives.
• Influence cross-functional decisions and build alignment across business and technology teams.
• Translate business objectives into technical strategies, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish trusted partnerships across global teams and leadership groups.

Build for the Future

• Contribute to Vanguard's long-term mobile and digital platform strategy.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform reuse, engineering efficiency, and customer experience.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and innovation opportunities.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of new capabilities supporting mobile modernisation and future growth.

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.