Senior Wealth Data Steward & Domain Trust Lead

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Senior Domain Data Steward to serve as the primary domain authority across wealth data assets. You will partner with Data Product Managers, IT, and Business Domain Owners to ensure data is trusted, high-quality, and regulatory-defensible for core operations and executive analytics.

You will own end-to-end data health, collaborate across teams, drive adoption of certified data products, and enforce data privacy and governance standards in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Finance, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8-10+ years of experience in data stewardship, data management, business analysis, or private wealth operations.
• Strong functional knowledge of Private Wealth Management processes and structures.
• Hands-on ability to write SQL queries to profile datasets, validate data models, trace data lineage, and debug data issues with engineering teams.
• Cross-functional collaboration with agile software delivery teams, Data Product Managers, and engineers.
• Wealth platforms familiarity with core wealth enterprise systems.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and observability/collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Co-Own Domain Roadmaps: Partner with Data Product Managers to translate domain priorities into backlogs and milestones.
• Define Data Trust Standards: Establish domain-specific quality benchmarks and validation rules for SDLC and data pipelines.
• Drive Business Adoption: Advocate for the domain to business consumers, boosting self-service analytics and adoption of certified data products.
• Proactive Observability & Profiling: Conduct data profiling using SQL and observability tools to detect anomalies and drift.
• Root-Cause Incident Resolution: Lead cross-functional triaging of domain data defects with Data Engineering to implement permanent fixes.
• Data Flow & Ecosystem Integrity: Validate end-to-end data flows across wealth platforms into cloud warehouses and analytics layers.
• Operationalize Privacy & Controls: Work with Risk, InfoSec, and Engineering on client data protection and privacy standards.
• Audit & Regulatory Readiness: Ensure data is complete, traceable, and regulatory-compliant.
• Cross-Team Alignment: Align Business Domain Owners, Data Product Managers, and IT Engineering on a unified data quality vision.

Skills

Data stewardship

SQL querying

Cross-functional collaboration

Data quality

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data management or related field

Tools

Cloud data platforms

Observability tools

Job description

Vanguard seeks a Senior Domain Data Steward to serve as the primary domain authority across wealth data assets. You will partner with Data Product Managers, IT, and Business Domain Owners to ensure data is trusted, high-quality, and regulatory-defensible for core operations and executive analytics.

You will own end-to-end data health, collaborate across teams, drive adoption of certified data products, and enforce data privacy and governance standards in a hybrid work environment.