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Director, Head of Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy and Enablement

Director, Head of Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy and Enablement

Come join the newly created Enterprise Data Architecture function in Vanguard's CTO!

Vanguard aims to become an AI-driven organization, and achieving this ambition requires AI-ready data. The establishment of this new department is crucial for driving our maturity and transformation into a data driven organization. This new group will be responsible for defining, aligning, and governing enterprise-wide data architecture strategies that enable IT, business, and client outcomes.  It is a fantastic opportunity to join our growing team at the ground floor of a journey that will partner across operational and analytical teams spanning all IT subdivisions, to enhance our data and analytics capabilities through strategic thought leadership, world class architecture, strong platform engineering, applied technology research, effective communication, change management, operating model optimization, project planning and enablement. This role will play a key role in elevating the maturity of Vanguard’s Enterprise Architecture practice, by helping effectively connect our strategy to world class execution.

In this role, you will:

Drive the delivery of transformational change by providing leadership to large, complex, multi-stakeholder technology programs focused on overarching improvements to systems, processes, operations, or teams. Leads and directs the activities of multiple large departments or several managers and specialists.

Responsibilities:

  • Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
  • Manages multi-year, cross-divisional technology-related programs. Drives all phases of the program lifecycle from inception through implementation while ensuring that business objectives are delivered with high quality and within targeted timeframes.
  • Creates and maintains a multi-year program strategy that clearly identifies specific actions and tasks needed to achieve future state goals. Drives communication to many different audiences within Vanguard on the overall goals and outcomes of the program.
  • Builds and maintains strategic relationships across sites, departments, divisions, and internal and external partners to support their program initiatives. Develops strong relationships with program leadership, sponsors, and workstream leads.
  • Holds responsibility over technology program budget, monitoring cost variances, and forecasting and allocating program costs. Ensures all steps are taken to mitigate risk and maintains control, compliance, audit, and legal requirements.
  • Lead organizational excellence, engineering effectiveness and cost optimization efforts.
  • Develop strategy to improve team performance and drive organizational change.
  • Ensure strong client satisfaction, stakeholder support and broad solution adoption.
  • Understand internal organizational functions and processes and scan external ecosystems to identify viable partners to compliment, innovate and add value and acceleration to strategic goals.
  • Conduct continuous improvement sessions; ensure lessons and recommendations are incorporated.
  • Develop and manage processes to identify any areas of opportunity and potential hurdles supporting the organization’s strategic plans and objectives.
  • Lead change management activities, communication, and feedback loop efforts.
  • Promote a culture of high performance, continuous improvement and innovation that values learning, improvement and a commitment to excellence.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to provide business intelligence as it relates to organizational outcomes, team health and client satisfaction
  • Engage with the team to track, manage, forecast and optimize technology spend
  • Partner on strategy definition and adoption. Co-author white papers and executive presentations
  • Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.


What it takes:

  • Minimum of ten years of related business experience, with at least six years of technical project management experience within the investment management industry.
  • Previous people-leadership experience strongly preferred.
  • Undergraduate degree in related field (Computer Science, Engineering) required. 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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