Executive Technology Architect Roadmap, Security & AI

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an Senior Executive Technology Architect to define multi-year strategies for the executive technology ecosystem, delivering architectures that span endpoints, identity, and security. You will partner with Workplace Engineering and security teams to translate business needs into durable standards.

The role requires hands-on engineering credibility and the ability to mentor specialists while driving automation, platform modernization, and governance across the executive

Responsibilities

• Establish governance that prevents configuration drift on executive devices and accounts.
• Provide architecture review, technical risk assessment, and design validation for production changes that affect executives before release, using pilot groups and staged rollouts.
• Maintain governance for executive and Board technology inventory, lifecycle, and access, including recurring audits of critical-user tags, mobile devices, and accounts.
• Serve as the primary architecture liaison to Workplace Engineering, enterprise architecture, identity and access management, network, collaboration, and security teams for executive-specific requirements.
• Partner with security teams on controls such as phishing-resistant authentication, hardware security keys, email protection, and executive isolation, building security and compliance into designs from the start while keeping the experience frictionless.
• Engage strategic vendors and manufacturers on escalations, product roadmaps, and executive-impacting issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis for high-impact executive incidents and convert findings into lasting engineering improvements through automation, instrumentation, and updated standards.

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an Senior Executive Technology Architect to define multi-year strategies for the executive technology ecosystem, delivering architectures that span endpoints, identity, and security. You will partner with Workplace Engineering and security teams to translate business needs into durable standards.

The role requires hands-on engineering credibility and the ability to mentor specialists while driving automation, platform modernization, and governance across the executive