Vanguard
Financial Services
ChiefDataDomainArchitect
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“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.
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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