Domain Architect - Data , Senior Specialist
Today• Malvern, PA
Role Overview: The Chief Data Architect for Advice & Wealth Management shapes and evolves the data architecture underpinning advice delivery, client relationships, and wealth operations. This role ensures data platforms, models, and controls enable regulatory compliance, adviser productivity, superior client outcomes, and future AI-driven capabilities.
Partnering closely with business, product, and engineering teams, the Chief Data Architect provides architectural leadership across AWS-based platforms to deliver practical, business-focused outcomes.
Key Accountabilities
- 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.
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Experience & Capabilities
- Deep experience in advice, wealth management, or related financial services.
- Expertise in data modelling for 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.
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What Success Looks Like
- AWM platforms aligned to a clear, business-focused data architecture.
- Trusted householding and teaming models consistently applied.
- Improved data quality, regulatory confidence, and operational efficiency.
- AWS-native foundations enabling innovation and growth.
Major priorities for the role will include:
- Operational DQ / getting our arms around incidents like SRM
- Data modeling and leading our householding efforts
- Having perspectives on technologies such as Supergraph
- Experience integrating multiple third-party platforms
- Experience of designing data architectures to support highly critical reporting and analysis (e.g., regulatory)
- Experience with securities data
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
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. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Client-provided location(s): Malvern, PA
Job ID: Vanguard-174134
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-01-30T19:58:27
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- FSA
- HSA
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Fitness Subsidies
- On-Site Gym
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
- Pet Insurance
Parental Benefits
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Company Outings
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- Snacks
- Some Meals Provided
- On-Site Cafeteria
Vacation and Time Off
- Personal/Sick Days
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation
- Volunteer Time Off
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- Relocation Assistance
- Performance Bonus
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- 401(K)
- Financial Counseling
- Profit Sharing
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Internship Program
- Lunch and Learns
- Leadership Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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