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 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.
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 Securities Reference Master (SRM)
Data modeling and leading our householding efforts
Having perspectives on technologies such as Supergraph
Integrating multiple third-party platforms
Designing data architectures to support highly critical reporting and analysis (e.g., regulatory)
Securities data integrations
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.
Skills Required
- 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
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
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What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
