Senior Manager, AI & Data Platforms (Hybrid)

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Senior Manager, AI & Data Engineering to lead teams building data products and AI-ready platforms enabling enterprise analytics and decision-making across Vanguard’s Participant Financial Success ecosystem. You will own strategy, roadmap, and execution of scalable data, AI, and knowledge platforms while ensuring governance, security, and reliability.

Hybrid role based in Malvern, PA or Charlotte, NC with in-office Tue-Wed-Thu, collaborating with business, product, analytics, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in data engineering, data management, analytics, AI/ML engineering, or related tech.
• Experience leading managers and geographically distributed teams.
• Proven record delivering enterprise data strategies and AI-enabled solutions.
• Deep expertise with AWS data services and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing data/AI engineering organization.
• Define strategy, roadmap, and delivery model for enterprise data products and AI platforms.
• Build and scale governed data products for analytics, personalization, and decision-making.
• Establish AI-ready data foundations with metadata management and governance.
• Oversee scalable cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, and lakehouse architectures.
• Drive DataOps, MLOps, automation, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Partner with senior leaders to align investments and maximize business impact.
• Enforce data governance, privacy, security, and compliance standards.

Skills

Data engineering

Data management

AI/ML engineering

Cloud-native architectures

AWS

Data governance

Strategic leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Apache Iceberg

Kafka/Confluent

SageMaker

Data observability platforms

Job description

Vanguard seeks a Senior Manager, AI & Data Engineering to lead teams building data products and AI-ready platforms enabling enterprise analytics and decision-making across Vanguard’s Participant Financial Success ecosystem. You will own strategy, roadmap, and execution of scalable data, AI, and knowledge platforms while ensuring governance, security, and reliability.

Hybrid role based in Malvern, PA or Charlotte, NC with in-office Tue-Wed-Thu, collaborating with business, product, analytics, and