Vanguard

Financial Services

ChiefDataDomainArchitect

$350–600k ~AI est. Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Chief Data Domain Architect at Vanguard. Skills: Data Architecture, Wealth Management, AI Enablement. Define architecture roadmap. Execute architecture roadmap”

What You'll Achieve.

AWM platforms aligned to business-focused data architecture; Trusted householding and teaming models consistently applied; Improved data quality; Improved regulatory confidence; Improved operational efficiency; AWS-native foundations enabling innovation and growth

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Data architecture solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Deep experience in advice, wealth management, or related financial services, Expertise in data modelling in the wealth management domain, Proven ability to design architecture supporting regulatory reporting and controls, Hands-on knowledge of AWS data services and cloud-native patterns, Experience enabling analytics and AI through governed, high-quality data, Ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across business and technology

Nice to Have

PhD preferred, Specific ML framework experience, Cloud platform certs

What You'll Do.

Define architecture roadmap

Execute architecture roadmap

Lead householding models

Lead adviser teaming models

Advance architecture for AI and analytics

Strengthen regulatory reporting

Strengthen data lineage

Strengthen auditability

Improve operational data quality

Govern AWS-native data platforms

Govern relational stores

Establish integration patterns

Set pragmatic data standards

Models data architecture solutions

Defines data architecture solutions

Transforms data architecture solutions

Integrates data architecture solutions

Provides data architecture solutions

Coaches junior architects

Mentors junior architects

Establishes relationships with IT leaders

Establishes relationships with architects

Establishes relationships with technical specialists

Participates in special projects

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering with business teams; Partnering with product teams; Partnering with engineering teams; Collaborate across business; Collaborate across technology; Relationships with IT leaders; Relationships with architects; Relationships with technical specialists

Communication Scope

Influence senior stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

**The Chief Data Domain Architect for Advice & Wealth Management shapes and evolves the architecture underpinning advice delivery, client relationships, and wealth operations. This role ensures data platforms, data models, and data controls enable regulatory compliance, adviser productivity, superior client outcomes, and future AI-driven capabilities.** Partnering closely with business, product, and engineering teams, the Chief Domain Architect provides architectural leadership across AWS-based platforms to deliver practical, business-focused outcomes. **Key Accountabilities** * Define and execute the 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. **Experience & Capabilities** * Deep experience in advice, wealth management, or related financial services. * Expertise in data modelling in the wealth management domain. * Proven ability to design architecture supporting regulatory reporting and controls. * Hands-on knowledge of AWS data services

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