Chief Data Domain Architect

Vanguard

Chief Data Domain Architect focusing on advice delivery and wealth operations architecture at Vanguard. Collaborating with business and engineering teams to strengthen data quality and regulatory compliance.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeMalvern • North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudMicroservicesNoSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working model
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

data architecturedata modellingregulatory reportingdata qualityAPI integrationmicroservicesanalyticsAIcloud-native patternsNoSQL

Soft Skills

coachingmentoringinfluencingcollaborationrelationship building