Data Management Analyst- Senior/Advanced

Vanguard • Malvern, PA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a unique opportunity to join Vanguard’s intermediary business Data team and empower trustworthy, high-quality, and compliant data driving strategic business decisions and actions. Data is a strong enabler to all we do and we look for a driven and senior, experienced data management/data governance individual to drive the business vision and mission. This individual will contribute both strategically in cross-functional partnerships and through tangible progress with a modernized data management platform. Ideal candidate will possess strong data quality, metadata, architectural principles, and technical skills (SQL, Python, AI) along with exceptional understanding of governance principles and requirements to ensure data meets or exceeds standards. The candidate will have the opportunity to translate broad data management best practices and governance objectives into actionable plans, define metrics and evaluate progress, and deliver measurable outcomes readouts to Sr Leadership.

Requirements

• Strong data management, governance, analytical, and technical skills to deliver high-quality, trustworthy data through adherence to data governance principles on data quality, metadata management, data lineage, authoritative data sourcing, and other requirements.
• Ability to establish, educate on, and audit governance controls.
• Experience with SQL, Python, data analysis tools, and modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, cloud data environments) is highly desirable.
• Ability to translate broad governance objectives into actionable plans and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Ability to identify and prioritize governance opportunities, manage remediation efforts, track risks and issues, implement governance processes, define metrics, and ensure sustainable execution of governance programs.
• Ability to balance long-term governance strategy with day-to-day operational delivery.
• Ability to partner effectively with senior management, business leaders, data stewards, technology teams, risk partners, privacy teams, and analysts to drive adoption of governance practices.
• Ability to facilitate governance discussions, resolve data ownership questions, influence decision-making, communicate risks and recommendations, and build alignment around data standards and priorities across multiple functions.
• Strong experience with data quality, metadata, architecture standards.
• Minimum of five years of related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Experience working with Databricks, cloud data platforms, or enterprise metadata/governance tools such as Collibra.
• Proficient with SQL and Python and experience working with large, complex datasets
• Strong decision-making, prioritization, communication, and project management skills, especially when balancing competing governance initiatives.
• Proven track record of operating independently in very dynamic and fast pace environment.
• Knowledge of and experience with AI capabilities and data readiness requirements for advanced analytics and AI use cases.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and cross-functional operating models.
• Experience supporting audit, risk, compliance, privacy, or regulatory initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Analytics, etc.) preferred

Responsibilities

• Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) of data sets for a given industry, data storage systems, and the operational processes being supported. Maintains awareness of changing business needs to create appropriate project solutions.
• Leads process design efforts to support new offerings, business initiatives, or improvement projects. Performs root cause analyses of complex data errors. Identifies opportunities to eliminate future occurrences, prioritizes initiatives, mitigates risk, leverages technology, and recommends short- and long-term solutions for issues.
• Focuses on improving Data Management's service offer and communicates with stakeholders and management to obtain their input and buy-in as appropriate. Recommends, coordinates, documents, and implements changes that will enhance work-flows and procedures. Integrates new or existing technologies into work-flows and communicates to all team members. Analyzes impacts and prepares environment for change.
• Builds and maintains relationships with internal and external partners to define data requirements, develop project specifications, and execute data projects to ensure that the expected outputs are delivered. Provides validation and approval of project deliverables.
• Identifies solutions independently and with input from internal and external partners, external vendors, and industry contacts to enable best-in-class data management practices, scalability, and cost effectiveness. Leads and consults on new projects to ensure operational readiness upon implementation into the live environment.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree