Analytics Lead, Data Analytics & Modeling

HandsOn Technical Leadership

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data models, datasets, and analytical solutions with a focus on correctness, performance, and reusability.
• Write, review, and own productionquality 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 highquality execution.
• Partner closely with data engineering and platform teams to influence data architecture, modeling standards, and tooling.
• Ensure analytics solutions are built on trusted, wellgoverned, and sustainable data foundations.

Analytics & Solution Delivery

• Lead the delivery of highimpact dashboards, metrics, and analytical products that support strategic and operational decisionmaking.
• 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 handson 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 businessrelevant and technically sound.
• Contribute to shaping analytics priorities and roadmaps, balancing nearterm delivery with longterm data quality and scalability.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in data analytics, data engineering, or related technical roles with strong handson 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 wellstructured technical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical 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 advisorfocused businesses.

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.

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.