Domain Architect - Data , Senior Specialist

2 Locations May 26, 2026 Full Time Workday

Join Vanguard’s Enterprise Data Architecture team and help shape the future of our AI-Ready Data Strategy. This critical role will help define and evolve the enterprise data architecture blueprint, ensuring our data ecosystem is scalable, secure, and optimized for AI capabilities. You’ll collaborate across subdivisions to establish standards, patterns, and frameworks that enable trusted, high-quality data for the enterprise. If you’re passionate about modern data platforms, cloud-native architectures, and driving innovation through data, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Internal Career Opportunity Description:

Responsible for developing physical and logical data architecture blueprints, evaluating hardware and software platforms, integrating systems, data design, and data platform architecture.

Responsibilities:

  • Expertise in synthesizing business and technical requirements into world class data architectures and technical blueprints.

  • Designs data and platform architectures for Operational through Analytics phases of the data lifecycle. 

  • Provides thought leadership, working with partners to make decisions and recommendations on the future of data architecture.

  • Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • AWS Data Services.

  • Data Architecture experience required.

  • Data Modeling and Data Lakehouse technologies required.

  • Databricks, semantic modeling and dimensional modeling preferred.

  • Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years of technology architect experience.

  • Undergraduate degree 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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