Domain Architect - Data Center Networks

Vanguard•Wayne, PA

1d•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.
Deep expertise in data center networking concepts, including BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and leaf‑spine topologies.
Hands‑on architectural experience with Cisco ACI fabrics, policy models, and multi‑site designs.
Strong understanding of integrating ACI with virtualization platforms and hybrid cloud connectivity.

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.
Leads the architecture and design of data center network fabrics, including leaf‑spine architectures and software‑defined networking (SDN) solutions.
Defines and governs Cisco ACI fabric designs, including tenants, VRFs, bridge domains, contracts, policies, and integration with external L2/L3 networks.
Ensures data center network architectures support high availability, fault isolation, east‑west traffic optimization, and automation.
Partners with server, storage, virtualization, and security teams to ensure consistent, end‑to‑end infrastructure design across compute and network domains.
Evaluates data center networking technologies and vendors based on scalability, operational complexity, TCO, and lifecycle alignment.