AWS says that “choosing a database is one of the most important decisions you will make in your application architecture. The type of database you choose will affect the access patterns you can handle, the performance of your application, and the operations for which your team will be responsible.”

Do you like to solve the most complex data problems in the world today? Do you want to have an impact in software development and application architecture using AWS database and storage technologies? Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to enable various teams to better understand and leverage AWS database and storage technologies to do big new things faster, at lower cost?

Join Vanguard’s Investment and Finance data architecture team to serve as an AWS database and storage technology subject matter expert who plays an integral role supporting Investment and Finance technology durable product teams in building great products by enabling them to select, design, build and run the appropriate fit for use AWS database and storage technologies for their products.

Vanguard’s Investment and Finance data architecture team is seeking to add a distinguished data architect who is an experienced and motivated data technologist that possesses a unique balance of data technical depth, strong interpersonal skills, and Investment and Finance business acumen to encourage and equip Investment and Finance durable product teams to develop lasting designs for their products and applications.

In this role, you will:

• Think strategically about business, product, and technical opportunities in an enterprise environment and play a critical role developing innovative data solutions to complex business and technology problems.

• Owns and drives modernization plan for a given data domain across end-to-end Investment value stream in partnership with product architects.

• Work regularly with several Investment and Finance technology product architects and Investment and Finance technology technical leads to recommend and design the data components for their micro-service solutions, based on the business capabilities in the bounded context, data access patterns for those capabilities, and applicable non-functional requirements.

• Partner regularly with several Investment and Finance durable product teams to:

• Define and maintain certified trusted business data sources in scope of the product and provide required guidance and governance around them.

• Defines and maintains repeatable process for data store selection and equip them to select the appropriate AWS database and storage technologies, and design data solutions aligned to the pillars in the AWS well architected framework.

• Defines and maintains security guidance for data stores, data consumption patterns, and data distribution patterns.

• Defines and maintains repeatable process for data store sizing.

• Design/Update logical data model in collaboration with product owners for new initiatives to implement business capabilities.

• Drive data design discussions to make and document the rationale behind these data design decisions that sufficiently consider data access patterns, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements, trade-offs, and associated risk mitigation.

• Defines and maintains guidance for data store structure design and recommend data technology configurations and data structure designs for their AWS databases and storage by analyzing their data access patterns to optimize read and write performance.

• Review and approve sizing and physical data design produced by tech leads and provide required guidance on implementation for optimized cost and performance.

• Support them to detect, diagnose, and remediate performance issues with cloud databases and storage.

• Work regularly with AWS vendor and Vanguard’s centralized platform teams on behalf of several Investment and Finance technology durable product teams to advocate and influence the prioritization for the latest data technologies, features, and functions to ensure the success of teams’ product roadmap initiatives.

• Leverage your AWS database and storage subject matter expertise to define prescriptive guidance, best practices, templates, and exemplars around field of use, patterns, and anti-patterns that serve as the guidelines and guardrails for the Investment and Finance technology sub-division.

• Join in ad hoc special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

What it takes:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience

• Minimum 5+ years relevant work experience

• 2+ years of experience as a data architect is preferred.

• Experience designing data structures for both transactional and analytics workloads.

• Experience designing data solutions considering the functional requirements as well as the non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, scalability, consistency, and concurrency.

• Experience designing and delivering the data components of solutions with the two or more of the following AWS database and storage types and products: relational (RDS, Aurora, Redshift), key value (DynamoDB), durable caching (ElastiCache), graph (Neptune), and S3 object storage.

• Experience in sizing, performance tuning, cost optimization of AWS database and storage resources. Experience with AWS reserved instances and/or AWS S3 Intelligent -Tiering is preferred.

• Experience in PostgreSQL performance tuning at both the database and application levels to enhance availability, performance, and security is preferred.

• Experience in guiding teams in migrating databases from on-premises databases to cloud databases is preferred. Experience with AWS Data Migration Service is preferred.

• Experience designing and developing a variety of cloud analytics solutions. Experience with AWS analytics services and Dremio is preferred.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Certification is preferred.

• Experience socializing and governing data components of solutions according to the AWS Well Architected Framework is preferred.

• Experience designing and delivering financial services investment and finance related solutions is preferred.

• Strong communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

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.

Vanguard, one of the world's largest investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.

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