The Senior Domain Data Steward serves as the primary domain authority and cross-functional connector across assigned USDI (e.g., Client & Household, Account, Portfolio & Performance, Advisor, Alternative Products, or Reference Data).
Working hand in hand with Data Product Managers, IT/Engineering teams, and Business Domain Owners, this role owns the end-to-end health, usability, and trust of wealth data assets. The Domain Data Steward bridges business intent and technical delivery-ensuring data across operational wealth engines and analytical environments is inherently trusted, high-quality, regulatory-defensible, and structurally aligned to power core business operations, advisor tools, and executive analytics.
Responsibilities:- Co-Own Domain Roadmaps: Partner directly with Data Product Managers to translate business domain priorities, operational friction points, and consumer needs into prioritized product backlogs and technical delivery milestones.
- Define Data Trust Standards: Establish domain-specific quality benchmarks, validation rules, and business acceptance criteria for Data Product Managers and IT Engineers to embed directly into software development lifecycles (SDLC) and data pipelines.
- Drive Business Adoption: Act as the primary advocate for the domain to business consumers (advisors, wealth operations, executive reporting)-building confidence in data assets, accelerating self-service analytics, and driving adoption of certified data products.
- Proactive Observability & Profiling: Conduct independent data profiling and investigation using SQL and data observability tools to detect anomalies, schema drifts, and pipeline breaks.
- Root-Cause Incident Resolution: Lead cross-functional triaging of domain data defects, partnering directly with Data Engineering teams to implement permanent technical fixes rather than temporary workarounds.
- Data Flow & Ecosystem Integrity: Validate end-to-end data flows across core wealth platforms to ensure data consistency as information transitions from operational platforms into cloud data warehouses and analytical layers.
- Operationalize Privacy & Controls: Partner with Risk, Information Security, and Engineering to implement client data protection, entitlement models, and privacy standards inside data products.
- Audit & Regulatory Readiness: Ensure domain data is complete, traceable, and compliant with critical regulatory mandates.
- Cross-Team Alignment: Serve as the connective tissue aligning Business Domain Owners, Data Product Managers, and IT Engineering around a unified vision for data quality and operational excellence.
Education & Experience:- Education: Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Finance, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience: 8-10+ years of experience in data stewardship, data management, business analysis, or private wealth operations.
- Domain Expertise: Strong functional knowledge of Private Wealth Management processes and structures (e.g., client onboarding, household hierarchies, trust/fiduciary accounting, portfolio accounting, alternative investments, or GIPS performance metrics).
- Technical Proficiency: Hands-on ability to write SQL queries to independently profile datasets, validate data models, trace data lineage, and debug data issues alongside engineering teams.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated success collaborating with agile software delivery teams, Data Product Managers, and technical engineers to prioritize backlogs and build trusted data assets.
- Wealth Platforms: Operational familiarity with core wealth enterprise systems.
- Data & Delivery Stack: Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms and observability/collaboration tools.
Special FactorsSponsorshipVanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
