Senior Domain Data Steward & Data Quality Lead

Vanguard; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Senior Domain Data Steward to be the primary domain authority for wealth data assets. You will partner with Data Product Managers, IT, and Domain Owners to ensure data health, trust, and regulatory defensibility across operational wealth engines and analytics.

You will define quality standards, own end-to-end data flows, and promote self-service analytics while safeguarding privacy and compliance across the data products that support advisors and executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a data-related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8–10+ years in data stewardship, data management, business analysis, or private wealth operations.
• Strong knowledge of Private Wealth Management processes (client onboarding, household hierarchies, portfolio accounting, etc.).
• Hands-on ability to write SQL queries to profile datasets, validate data models, and trace data lineage with engineering teams.
• Experience collaborating with agile software delivery teams, Data Product Managers, and engineers to backlogs and trusted data assets.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and data observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Co-Own Domain Roadmaps: translate priorities into prioritized backlogs and milestones.
• Define Data Trust Standards: establish quality benchmarks and validation rules for SDLC and data pipelines.
• Drive Business Adoption: advocate for domain data, enable self-service analytics, and promote certified data products.
• Proactive Observability & Profiling: perform data profiling to detect anomalies, drift, and pipeline breaks.
• Root-Cause Incident Resolution: lead cross-functional triaging with Data Engineering for permanent fixes.
• Data Flow & Ecosystem Integrity: validate end-to-end data flows across wealth platforms to cloud warehouses.
• Operationalize Privacy & Controls: implement client data protection and entitlement models.
• Audit & Regulatory Readiness: ensure data is complete, traceable, and compliant.
• Cross-Team Alignment: align domain owners, product managers, and engineers toward a shared data quality vision.

Skills

SQL

Data stewardship

Cross-functional collaboration

Data quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data management / information systems / finance / business

Job description

Vanguard seeks a Senior Domain Data Steward to be the primary domain authority for wealth data assets. You will partner with Data Product Managers, IT, and Domain Owners to ensure data health, trust, and regulatory defensibility across operational wealth engines and analytics.

You will define quality standards, own end-to-end data flows, and promote self-service analytics while safeguarding privacy and compliance across the data products that support advisors and executives.