Domain Architect - DNS and GTM, Senior Specialist

Vanguard•Wayne, PA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Vanguard, one of the world's largest investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests. This website uses "cookies" to distinguish you from other users. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers placed on your computer or device. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site and services. The cookies are stored locally on your computer or mobile device. To accept cookies you can continue browsing as normal. Or you can go to our Privacy Policy to read more information and learn how to change your preferences.

Requirements

Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of technology architect experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Deep understanding of DNS architecture, DDI services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), and enterprise DNS operations.
Architectural experience designing and governing DDI platforms for enterprise‑scale deployments.
Experience designing and governing global traffic management solutions, including Akamai GTM, and their interaction with enterprise DNS ecosystems.
Strong knowledge of DNS automation, API‑driven provisioning, and lifecycle management in large‑scale environments, including experience with IaC pipelines.
Deep understanding of how DDI and GTM integrate with application, network, cloud, and security architectures.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides the architectural leadership in shaping strategic, infrastructure technology programs and planning
Leverages knowledge capital available through subscription research services and critical resources for related knowledge capital, inclusive of blogs, podcasts, webinar, etc.
Produces technology roadmaps, defines reference and implementation architectures, and develops proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.
Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance, security, etc.), as appropriate, and monitors implementation activities to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld.
Utilizes partnership skills especially in the areas of persuasion, influence, conceptualizing solutions and problem solving.
Communicates complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
Establishes relationships with IT leaders, architects, and technical specialists for the purpose of advancing proposed architectural solutions, and ensuring availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
Possesses deep understanding of the competitive landscape and corporate and business unit strategies to provide context for architectural decision making.
Identifies and mitigates risks of introducing architecture technology enhancements, ensures that IT project teams comply with IT Governance policies and procedures.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Defines enterprise DDI architectures, including authoritative, recursive, and hybrid DNS models.
Provides architectural leadership for global traffic management (GTM) solutions, including Akamai GTM, and their integration with enterprise DNS platforms.
Establishes standards for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) resiliency, availability, scalability, and performance to support critical enterprise and customer‑facing applications.
Designs and governs DDI architectures, including DNS views, zone design, delegation models, DHCP scopes, IPAM workflows, and role‑based access controls.
Ensures DDI and traffic management architectures support disaster recovery, geo‑redundancy, application failover, and automation‑driven recovery scenarios.
Defines patterns for secure DNS architectures, including DNS security controls, segmentation, and integration with enterprise security and zero‑trust initiatives.
Leads the integration of DDI platforms with automation and orchestration tools, enabling API‑driven DNS/IP lifecycle management and infrastructure‑as‑code workflows.
Partners with network, application, cloud, and security teams to ensure DDI designs align with enterprise reliability, security, compliance, and operational governance objectives.