Lead Architect

Capital Group

Lead Architect at Capital Group defining the observability control plane for modern distributed systems and AI workloads. Ensuring scalability and integrative architecture across multiple technology platforms.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeIrvine • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $201,683 - $322,693 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate at the center of enterprise architecture, defining the observability control plane
Ensure observability capabilities scale across applications, platforms, and AI-driven workloads
Design and govern the end-to-end telemetry ecosystem—establish how signals are generated, normalized, routed, and transformed into actionable intelligence
Own the architecture and standards of the observability ecosystem while driving adoption across platform, application, and security teams
Define the target-state observability architecture, including standardized telemetry schemas
Architect end-to-end telemetry flows ensuring scalability, data integrity, and cost-efficient lifecycle management
Extend observability into the emerging AI domain, defining architectures that capture AI-specific signals
Drive cross-layer architectural cohesion and establish patterns for service-level indicators and objectives
Define standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns while driving adoption across engineering teams
Act as a technical authority, influencing platform direction and ensuring observability is embedded as a foundational capability

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Deep understanding of distributed systems observability (tracing, metrics at scale, and log aggregation)
Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts and telemetry pipelines
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)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Enjoy generous time-away and health benefits from day one
Opportunity for flexible work options
Receive 2-for-1 matching gifts for charitable contributions
Access on-demand professional development resources

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureobservabilitytelemetrydistributed systems observabilityOpenTelemetryAIOpscloud architectureanomaly detectionalert correlationtime-series analysis

Soft Skills

collaborationinfluence