GenAI Product Architect

The GenAI Product Architect will provide the technology thought leadership to shape the strategic direction, and roadmaps for technology programs and associated product families for Vanguard’s Institutional Investor Group. The role will entail defining the reference and application architectures for strategic business technology programs with an emphasis on front-end and GenAI technologies.

 

Responsibilities:

• Leads the definition of product roadmaps and architecture for a product family, according to business strategies and enterprise architecture.

• Persuade and influence Business and Information Technology (IT) leaders on the architectural direction for strategic technology projects.

• Collaborates with the broader architecture community to ensure that their products align with target architectures and technology roadmaps and provides input on required platform capabilities and improving development tools/processes.

• Defines reference and application architectures.

• Develops proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.

• Monitors implementation activity to ensure architecture and engineering best practices are upheld.

• Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance, security, etc.), as appropriate.

• 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.

• Utilizes a general understanding of the competitive landscape and corporate and business unit strategies to provide context for architectural decision making.

• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

• Minimum of eight years relevant work experience.

• Ability to create clarity and certainty when there is Architecture ambiguity; communicate to all stakeholders at varying levels within the Organization.

• Front-End development experience – Angular, React and Node.JS technologies.

• GenAI Technologies (Chatbot and Virtual Agent experience preferred).

• Database skills – Oracle, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.

• Facilitates and advices on Enterprise level delivery and design of reusable artifacts and API interface specifications (XSD/WSDL/WADL/Swagger/OpenAPI/YAML) and API security standards and implementation (Oauth, OpenId).

• Amazon Services: Amazon API Gateway, EC2, ECS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, AWS RDS (DynamoDB, Postgres, Aurora), CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.

• Experience in financial services industry, specifically investment management and/or banking is preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

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We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

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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.