Lead Architect

I can be myself at work.

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.

I can influence my income.

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.

• Bonuses and benefits
• Generous time-away and health benefits from day one
• The opportunity for flexible work options
• Matching gifts for your charitable contributions
• Annual grants for the organizations you love
• On-demand professional development resources

I can succeed as a Lead Architect at Capital Group

• Define the observability control plane for modern distributed systems, multi-cloud platforms, and AI-driven workloads
• Design and govern the end-to-end telemetry ecosystem
• Establish standardized telemetry schemas, OpenTelemetry-based pipelines, and a unified signal model spanning logs, metrics, traces, events, and AI-specific telemetry
• Extend observability into the emerging AI domain
• Drive cross-layer architectural cohesion and align infrastructure, platform, application, and business observability
• Establish patterns for service-level indicators and objectives, distributed tracing as a primary debugging primitive, and intelligent telemetry pipelines that support AIOps capabilities
• Translate strategy into executable designs, define standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns
• Influence platform direction, resolve complex design tradeoffs, and ensure observability is embedded as a foundational capability for resilience, governance, and intelligent operations at scale

I am the person Capital Group is looking for.

• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, or enterprise architecture roles
• 5+ years of experience focused on observability, monitoring, or operational platforms in cloud environments
• A deep understanding of distributed systems observability (tracing, metrics at scale, and log aggregation)
• A strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts and telemetry pipelines
• A working knowledge of AIOps concepts, including anomaly detection, alert correlation, and time-series analysis
• Experience designing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud architectures (AWS preferred)
• Strong collaboration and influence skills across engineering organizations
• Experience with AI/LLM observability, security observability, or working in large-scale regulated environments (strong plus)

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I Can Learn More About Capital Group.

• Culture, compensation and opportunities that empower our associates to build successful and prosperous careers
• Our goal has been to improve people’s lives through successful investing
• More than 9,000 associates in 30+ offices around the world help our clients and each other grow and thrive every day
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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.

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.