Senior Domain AI Architect: Scalable, Secure Enterprise AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Domain AI Architect to design secure, scalable, and responsible AI systems across engineering, product, data, risk, and security teams. You will craft reusable patterns for LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows while coaching engineers in modern AI engineering practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with enterprise architecture and governance to enable secure AI at scale, delivering measurable client and crew outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, or application architecture; demonstrated Generative AI solutions in production.
• Expertise with LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, LangChain/LangGraph or similar frameworks, vector databases, APIs, microservices, cloud-native platforms, and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience designing secure, scalable enterprise applications; financial services or regulated-industry experience preferred.
• Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder partnership skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end AI architectures for LLM-powered applications, RAG, agentic workflows, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and enterprise data integration.
• Define reusable architecture patterns, reference implementations, and deployment approaches that accelerate delivery across teams.
• Enable secure, resilient, observable, and cost-effective AI services across cloud-native environments.
• Embed responsible AI, security, privacy, auditability, and regulatory controls into solution designs.
• Review architectures and code, optimize performance and reliability, and support experiments that validate business value.

Skills

Generative AI in prod

LLMs/RAG/agentic AI

Cloud-native architectures

Kubernetes/EKS

APIs & microservices

Vector databases

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

LangChain/LangGraph

Vector databases

APIs & microservices

Kubernetes/EKS

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a Domain AI Architect to design secure, scalable, and responsible AI systems across engineering, product, data, risk, and security teams. You will craft reusable patterns for LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows while coaching engineers in modern AI engineering practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with enterprise architecture and governance to enable secure AI at scale, delivering measurable client and crew outcomes.