Lead Architect

Job description

“I can be myself at work.” You are more than a job title. We want you to feel comfortable doing great work and bringing your best, authentic self to everything you do. We value your talents, traditions, and uniqueness—and we’re committed to fostering a strong sense of belonging in a respectful workplace. We intentionally seek diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, investing in a culture designed to celebrate differences. We believe that belonging leads to better outcomes and a stronger community of associates united by our mission. At Capital, we live our core values every day: Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community. “I can influence my income.” You want to feel recognized at work. Your performance will be reviewed annually, and your compensation will be designed to motivate and reward the value that you provide. You’ll receive a competitive salary, bonuses and benefits. Your company-funded retirement contribution will factor in salary and variable pay, including bonuses. “I can lead a full life.” You bring unique goals and interests to your job and your life. Whether you’re raising a family, you’re passionate about where you volunteer, or you want to explore different career paths, we’ll give you the resources that can set you up for success. Enjoy generous time-away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options Receive 2-for-1 matching gifts for your charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you love Access on-demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new ones “I can succeed as a Lead Architect at Capital Group” At Capital Group, you will operate at the center of enterprise architecture, defining the observability control plane that underpins modern distributed systems, multi-cloud platforms, and AI-driven workloads. As the firm’s technology landscape evolves, this role ensures observability capabilities scale to provide comprehensive visibility across applications, platforms, and AI-driven workloads. As a Lead Data Architect for Enterprise Observability, you will design and govern the end-to-end telemetry ecosystem—establishing how signals are generated, normalized, routed, and transformed into actionable intelligence across the firm. You will own the architecture and standards of this observability ecosystem while driving adoption across platform, application, and security teams. This role is responsible for defining the target-state observability architecture, including standardized telemetry schemas, OpenTelemetry-based pipelines, and a unified signal model spanning logs, metrics, traces, events, and AI-specific telemetry. You will architect end-to-end telemetry flows—from instrumentation at the application and platform layers through collection, enrichment, routing, and persistence—ensuring scalability, data integrity, and cost-efficient lifecycle management, and enabling a centralized observability control plane for the enterprise. You will also extend observability into the emerging AI domain, where traditional monitoring is insufficient. This includes defining architectures that capture AI-specific signals such as model performance, token usage, agent execution traces, and guardrail outcomes—providing visibility into correctness, safety, and cost characteristics not addressed by traditional monitoring approaches and enabling visibility into failure modes that are otherwise invisible to conventional systems. As a senior individual contributor, you will drive cross-layer architectural cohesion, aligning infrastructure, platform, application, and business observability into a unified model across the enterprise. You will establish patterns for service-level indicators and objectives, distributed tracing as a primary debugging primitive, and intelligent telemetry pipelines that support AIOps capabilities such as anomaly detection, signal correlation, and automated response—enabling faster detection, diagnosis, and resolution of issues across systems and workloads. This is a hands-on architecture role where you will translate strategy into executable designs—defining standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns while driving adoption across engineering teams to ensure consistency and scale. You will act as a technical authority, influencing platform direction, resolving complex design tradeoffs, and ensuring observability is embedded as a foundational capability for resilience, governance, and intelligent operations at scale. “I am the person Capital Group is looking for.” You have 10+ years of experience in software, platform, or enterprise architecture roles. You have 5+ years of experience focused on observability, monitoring, or operational platforms in cloud environments. You have a deep understanding of distributed systems observability (tracing, metrics at scale, and log aggregation). You have strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts and telemetry pipelines. You have working knowledge of AIOps concepts, including anomaly detection, alert correlation, and time-series analysis. You have experience designing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud architectures (AWS preferred). You have strong collaboration and influence skills across engineering organizations. You have experience with AI/LLM observability, security observability, or working in large-scale regulated environments (strong plus) “I can apply in less than 4 minutes.” You’ve reviewed this job posting and you’re ready to start the candidate journey with us. Apply now to move to the next step in our recruiting process. If this role isn’t what you’re looking for, check out our other opportunities and join our talent community. “I can learn more about Capital Group.” At Capital Group, the success of the people who invest with us depends on the people in whom we invest. That’s why we offer a culture, compensation and opportunities that empower our associates to build successful and prosperous careers. Through nine decades, our goal has been to improve people’s lives through successful investing. We know that our history is a testament to the strength of the people we hire. More than 9,000 associates in 30+ offices around the world help our clients and each other grow and thrive every day. Find us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Glassdoor. ‎ ‎ Southern California Base Salary Range: $201,683-$322,693 ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital’s annual profitability bonus plus a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings. You can learn more about our compensation and benefits here . * Temporary positions in the United States are excluded from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans. We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we comply with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit discrimination when making all decisions about employment. As equal opportunity employers, our policies prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including gender and gender identity), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, AIDS/HIV status, political activities or affiliations, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, assault or stalking or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.