Chief Data Domain Architect

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in data architecture, financial services, or related fields.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of data governance and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex projects.

Skills

• Data modeling and architecture design.
• Cloud-native platform management and governance.
• Regulatory compliance and data privacy.
• Collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Problem-solving and decision-making.

Benefits

Vanguard offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Competitive compensation and performance-based bonuses.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).
• Retirement savings plans with employer matching.
• Employee assistance programs (EAP).
• Professional development opportunities and training.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This role is currently available on a hybrid schedule.