Analytics Lead, Data Analytics & Modeling

Vanguard
Malvern, PA, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Adaptable Database Systems Business Analytics Applications Data Analysis Cloud Database Code Review Data Architecture Information Engineering Data Infrastructure Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Power BI SQL Databases
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Tableau (Software) Data Analytics Codebase Data Management Software Coding Looker Analytics Data Pipelines

Job description

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data models, datasets, and analytical solutions with a focus on correctness, performance, and reusability.

  • Write, review, and own production-quality SQL and Python code across data pipelines, transformations, and analytical workflows.

  • Serve as a technical lead on complex projects-defining approach, driving design decisions, and ensuring high-quality execution.

  • Partner closely with data engineering and platform teams to influence data architecture, modeling standards, and tooling.

  • Ensure analytics solutions are built on trusted, well-governed, and sustainable data foundations.

Analytics & Solution Delivery

  • Lead the delivery of high-impact dashboards, metrics, and analytical products that support strategic and operational decision-making.

  • Translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, data models, and technical solutions.

  • Apply advanced analytical techniques (e.g., statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning where appropriate) to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.

  • Drive automation and standardization of reporting and analytics workflows to improve scalability and reduce manual effort.

  • Own outcomes for key deliverables, ensuring timelines, quality, and business impact are met.

Project Leadership & Mentorship

  • Lead analytics workstreams across multiple concurrent initiatives, coordinating across stakeholders and ensuring alignment to business priorities.

  • Mentor and support junior analysts through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on coaching.

  • Promote best practices in data modeling, coding standards, and analytical rigor across the team.

  • Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring solutions are both business-relevant and technically sound.

  • Contribute to shaping analytics priorities and roadmaps, balancing near-term delivery with long-term data quality and scalability.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in data analytics, data engineering, or related technical roles with strong hands-on delivery.

  • Proven experience leading complex analytics or data initiatives as an individual contributor.

  • Strong experience designing scalable data models (e.g., dimensional, semantic, or analytical models).

  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience maintaining complex analytical codebases.

  • Experience partnering closely with data engineering teams on data pipelines, architecture, and data platforms.

  • Deep understanding of analytics and BI concepts, with experience using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar.

  • Strong ability to translate ambiguous business problems into well-structured technical solutions.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience mentoring analysts in a technical lead or informal leadership capacity.

  • Familiarity with modern data platforms (e.g., cloud data warehouses, transformation frameworks, orchestration tools).

  • Experience operating in complex, enterprise or regulated environments.

  • Background in financial services, wealth management, or advisor-focused businesses.

About the company

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., Vanguard, one of the world’s leading 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.

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