Appian Technical Lead

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 This role provides the most senior level IT technical lead services, directing technology strategy across platforms and teams, while delivering user-centric full-stack solutions and managing scalable backend integration. Responsibilities Provides senior-level technical leadership for complex software, middleware, and hardware initiatives across multiple platforms. Delivers high-impact architectural design, development, and maintenance solutions. Ensures viability and effectiveness of IT deliverables by evaluating development options, approving architectural decisions, conducting functionality and security testing, and overseeing production support. Resolves complex technical problems, performs root cause analysis, and proactively mitigates risks introduced by less experienced staff. Anticipates and prevents potential system failures. Serves as a key technical communicator with stakeholders, evaluating and articulating the impact of change requests, while influencing and persuading on solution strategies. Maintains deep expertise in IT development methodologies, architecture, and emerging tools; mentors team members and leads adoption of best practices and new technologies. Oversees creation, approval, and maintenance of detailed technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and development standards. Champions continuous improvement of development methodologies, technical standards, and enterprise tooling. Develops robust, maintainable, and automated test-backed code. Creates reusable components, ad hoc queries, and reports. Leverages modern development frameworks to enhance automation and code quality. Drives team-wide productivity through collaborative frameworks, technology integration, and mentorship. Proactively identifies and resolves potential technical issues before escalation. Ensures compliance with IT and Information Security protocols and contributes to improvements in security policies and practices across teams. Possesses a comprehensive understanding of business operations across front, middle, and back-office functions. Designs technology solutions that support efficient workflows and strong control mechanisms. Participates in special projects and cross-functional initiatives as assigned. Collaborates with UI/UX and front-end teams to deliver user-centric, full-stack solutions. Integrates and manages seamless data flow across APIs, databases, and backend services to ensure performance and scalability. Qualifications and Skills Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in a technical lead role. Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, IT, or Software Engineering, or a master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science. Strong expertise in Appian, AWS, SQL, REST APIs, Appian connected systems/plugins. Experience with Lambda, S3, KMS, GraphQL, Athena, Splunk / Elastic, DevSecOps tools, Typescript or Javascript, React or Node, Claude Code or similar is good to have. Experience of Integration across Appian & AWS. 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. Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests. This website uses "cookies" to distinguish you from other users. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers placed on your computer or device. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site and services. 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