Data Scientist, Specialist

3 Locations May 28, 2026 Full Time Workday

Core Responsibilities

  • Develop end-to-end Generative AI solutions leveraging LLMs and foundational AI components
  • Design and implement scalable RAG workflows
  • Develops complex queries and performs extensive programming to access, transform, and prepare data for statistical modeling.
  • Leads and executes deep dive diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to support data-driven business decision making. Mentors and develops junior data scientists and analysts.
  • Identifies and diagnoses data inconsistencies and errors, documents data assumptions, and forages to fill data gaps.
  • Engages with internal stakeholders to understand and probe business processes in order to develop hypotheses. Brings structure to requests and translates requirements into an analytic approach.
  • Guides test design, research design, and model validation. Provides statistical consultation services. Serves as the analytics expert on cross functional teams for large strategic initiatives and contributes to the growth of the Vanguard analytic community.
  • Prepares and delivers insight presentations and action recommendations. Communicates complex analytical findings and implications to business leaders.
  • Designs scalable data mining models and reporting protocols to identify trends and patterns in massive datasets.
  • Applies modern and emerging data science techniques to solve business problems across functions such as marketing, economics, and operations.
  • Contributes to the advancement of analytics through exploratory research and application of cutting-edge statistical theory.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of five years related work experience in analytical roles. Experience with data wrangling required - Programming skills to access, transform and prepare large scale data for statistical modeling. Experience utilizing statistical and machine learning methods required.
  • Undergraduate degree in Analytics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Statistics or related analytical field of study or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

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.

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How to Get Hired at Vanguard

  • The Vanguard Group is the world's second-largest asset manager with ~$10T AUM and ~21,000 employees, headquartered on a 100-acre wooded campus at 100 Vanguard Boulevard in Malvern PA, with major U.S. offices in Charlotte NC, Phoenix AZ, and Scottsdale AZ, plus international offices in London, Melbourne, Mexico City, and Shanghai.
  • Vanguard is mutually owned by its own funds (and through them by the funds' investors) — there is no IPO, no parent company, no founding family equity stake, and no external shareholder. This structure is the source of the firm's roughly 0.07 percent average expense ratio and is referenced in nearly every internal cultural conversation. Engaging with this structure understandingly is the single biggest cultural-fit signal you can send.
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