Director, Head of Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy and Enablement

Come join the newly created Enterprise Data Architecture function in Vanguard's CTO! Vanguard aims to become an AI-driven organization, and achieving this ambition requires AI-ready data. The establishment of this new department is crucial for driving our maturity and transformation into a data driven organization. This new group will be responsible for defining, aligning, and governing enterprise-wide data architecture strategies that enable IT, business, and client outcomes.

This role will play a key role in elevating the maturity of Vanguard’s Enterprise Architecture practice, by helping effectively connect our strategy to world class execution. In this role, you will:

• Drive the delivery of transformational change by providing leadership to large, complex, multi-stakeholder technology programs focused on overarching improvements to systems, processes, operations, or teams.
• Leads and directs the activities of multiple large departments or several managers and specialists.

Responsibilities:

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew.
• Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Manages multi-year, cross-divisional technology-related programs.
• Drives all phases of the program lifecycle from inception through implementation while ensuring that business objectives are delivered with high quality and within targeted timeframes.
• Creates and maintains a multi-year program strategy that clearly identifies specific actions and tasks needed to achieve future state goals.
• Drives communication to many different audiences within Vanguard on the overall goals and outcomes of the program.
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships across sites, departments, divisions, and internal and external partners to support their program initiatives.
• Develops strong relationships with program leadership, sponsors, and workstream leads.
• Holds responsibility over technology program budget, monitoring cost variances, and forecasting and allocating program costs.
• Ensures all steps are taken to mitigate risk and maintains control, compliance, audit, and legal requirements.
• Lead organizational excellence, engineering effectiveness and cost optimization efforts.
• Develop strategy to improve team performance and drive organizational change.
• Ensure strong client satisfaction, stakeholder support and broad solution adoption.
• Understand internal organizational functions and processes and scan external ecosystems to identify viable partners to compliment, innovate and add value and acceleration to strategic goals.
• Conduct continuous improvement sessions; ensure lessons and recommendations are incorporated.
• Develop and manage processes to identify any areas of opportunity and potential hurdles supporting the organization’s strategic plans and objectives.
• Lead change management activities, communication, and feedback loop efforts.
• Promote a culture of high performance, continuous improvement and innovation that values learning, improvement and a commitment to excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to provide business intelligence as it relates to organizational outcomes, team health and client satisfaction.
• Engage with the team to track, manage, forecast and optimize technology spend.
• Partner on strategy definition and adoption.
• Co-author white papers and executive presentations.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

What it takes:

• Minimum of ten years of related business experience, with at least six years of technical project management experience within the investment management industry.
• Previous people-leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Undergraduate degree in related field (Computer Science, Engineering) required.
• Graduate degree preferred.

Special Factors: Sponsorship: Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard: At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work: Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.