Lead Architect

About the role

For our client, we are seeking a Lead Architect to join the team of a leader in the Finance & Insurance space. This role will support financial strategy, forecasting, and performance management initiatives that strengthen business visibility and decision-making. You will partner with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to improve planning processes, financial discipline, controls, and resource allocation. The position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise performance and scalable financial operations within a regulated financial services environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the end-to-end telemetry ecosystem for observability
• Establish standardized telemetry schemas and a unified signal model across various workloads
• Architect end-to-end telemetry flows from application instrumentation to data persistence
• Extend observability into AI domains to capture specific signals and metrics
• Ensure alignment of infrastructure and application observability within the enterprise
• Drive the adoption of service-level indicators and intelligent telemetry pipelines
• Act as a technical authority influencing design and operational standards

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, or enterprise architecture roles
• 5+ years in observability, monitoring, or operational platforms in cloud environments
• Deep understanding of distributed systems observability (tracing, metrics at scale, log aggregation)
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts and telemetry pipelines
• Familiarity with AIOps concepts like anomaly detection and time-series analysis
• Experience designing scalable and cost-efficient cloud architectures, preferably AWS
• Collaborative skills to influence across engineering organizations

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with AI/LLM observability or security observability in regulated environments is a plus

Location

Irvine, CA - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available

Pay

$201,683 – $322,693 annually

Benefits

• Individual annual performance bonus based on plan guidelines the company's annual profitability bonus
• Retirement plan with a 15% contribution on eligible earnings