Data Engineering at Vanguard
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L6 staff data engineer at Vanguard sits around $166K total comp from 12 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of AWS, Databricks and Azure, according to current job listings. Vanguard pays data engineers slightly below other Finance companies. Reviews put them at 3.7 on Glassdoor, a little below the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at Vanguard reads neutral and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 18 data engineering roles are open right now.
Vanguard data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Vanguard offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Vanguard employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Vanguard data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Vanguard data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQL
Data Factory
FabricVanguard data engineer job openings
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This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, managing databases and leveraging big data technologies to support analytics and business intelligence initiatives.
Manages and optimizes the automation of key ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) and quality assurance processes for large volumes of data.
Experience partnering with business and technical stakeholders to define requirements and deliver data solutions.
Build and maintain Spark notebooks (PySpark), Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Copy Jobs, and mirroring for batch and incremental ingestion at enterprise scale.
Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for asset and cash flow data, working toward AI-readiness
You will partner closely with business, analytics, and technology stakeholders to define priorities, guide strategy, and deliver data products that unlock insights and drive measurable outcomes.
Build ELT pipelines, from source to presentation of data to our internal customers.
Develop and maintain efficient ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines that ingest, process and transform large datasets from diverse sources.
Develop and maintain scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to efficiently extract data from diverse sources, transform it as required and load it into data warehouses or analytical systems.
Lead the onboarding of new data products for research and hypotheses testing requiring large scale historical data
Practice for the Vanguard loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the Vanguard loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Vanguard with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Vanguard interview difficulty
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Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
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76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
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5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition