Senior Business Architect

.Are you a lean process expert who understands technology? This role will be a key player in expanding the current state transfer agency/mutual fund processes from discovery to future state including process design. 

Responsibilities:

• Establishes strategic relationships with key partners to identify, evaluate, and deliver solutions. Assists in formulating IT and business strategies and ensures that business goals and strategy are well articulated. Plays a vital role in evaluating which initiatives to pursue. Delivers value through cultivating relationships, developing strategy, shaping demand, and facilitating communication.
• Translates business problems into strategic and cost-effective technology solution alternatives. Leverages deep IT knowledge to research emerging technologies and apply to business problems. Creates blueprint capabilities for software, middleware, and hardware deliverables. Ensures all deliverables comply with IT policies and procedures.
• Partners with senior business and IT leaders to align business initiatives, priorities, and schedules based on strategic business and IT plans.
• Influences the enterprise by promoting the sharing of innovative business solutions across business units and divisions to achieve competitive advantage.
• Owns and manages the capability landscape for multiple lines of business and its product owners as the business and the industry evolves. Develops deep knowledge of the business area(s) supported and the competitive landscape to provide context for decision-making.
• Develops and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business functions. Combines technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to business problems.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Transfer Agency/Mutual Fund industry experience.
• Six sigma, Lean, AWS Cloud background.

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.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Vanguard’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is central to our ability to deliver on our mission. We aspire to create a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and diverse—one that enables our employees, whom we call crew, to thrive and bring their best selves to work every day on behalf of our clients.

Cultivating DEI lifts our entire organization, and everyone shares accountability for our progress—from our senior leaders who lay the foundation and set the example for inclusive behaviors to crew who are growing in their personal DEI learning experiences.

Together, we’re on a mission. We are fueled by the value of diverse voices and connected through friendships and a culture of care—for our clients, our communities, and each other.    

Vanguard’s DEI journey has no finish line. Our commitment is enduring, and we remain focused on the path ahead. To learn more about Vanguard goals and progress toward DEI, download our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report.

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.