Domain Architect - Data , Senior Specialist
VanguardPennsylvania, United States
Posted January 29, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
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.
Job Description
The Chief Data Architect for Advice & Wealth Management shapes and evolves the data architecture underpinning advice delivery, client relationships, and wealth operations.
Requirements
- Define and execute the data architecture roadmap for Advice & Wealth Management.
- Lead householding and adviser teaming models to enable capabilities including unified household management.
- Advance architecture to support AI and analytics use cases relevant to advice workflows.
- Strengthen regulatory reporting, data lineage, and auditability.
- Improve operational data quality across client, advisor, portfolio, and advice domains.
- Govern AWS-native data platforms, including lakes and relational/NoSQL stores.
- Establish integration patterns for internal systems and third-party data via APIs and microservices.
- Set pragmatic data standards tailored to the advice and wealth domain.
- Models, defines, transforms, integrates and provides data architecture solutions from varying sources and in useable form to analytical tools and users.
- Coaches and mentors more junior architects, and establishes relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists for the purpose of advancing proposed architectural solutions.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
