Lead Architect

Role Overview

• As a Lead Data & AI Platform Architect, you will serve as the technical domain expert on foundational data, integration, and AI infrastructure technologies.
• You will steer technology strategy, define target state architectures, and build reference implementations for scalable, resilient data platforms optimized for Generative AI and Machine Learning.
• You will also be responsible for identifying and evaluating emerging technologies beneficial to this domain.
• You will be expected to possess hands-on expertise in modern cloud technologies, including but not limited to Databricks, Dremio, Snowflake, and tools for data governance, protection, and quality.
• This position requires a practical approach to testing and validating solutions in lab environments, ensuring that data pipelines are AI-ready, performant, and secure.
• You will act as a thought leader in data architecture, providing guidance on governance, security, and compliance.
• You will serve as the technical authority on foundational data and integration technologies, driving the technology strategy and target state architecture to support business goals.
• You will also evaluate emerging technologies, guiding the organization to adopt innovations that deliver value while minimizing disruption to end-users.
• Collaboration and thought leadership will be essential as you influence architects, engineers, and stakeholders to achieve strategic goals.
• We work with our business partners and the rest of IT to plan, design, enable and mature the capabilities needed for Capital Group to accomplish our mission of delivering superior, long-term investment results and high-quality service.

Requirements

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• You have demonstrated ability in defining, designing, and delivering enterprise-scale data strategies and data management solutions leveraging sound architecture principles, approaches, and patterns.
• You have at least 10 years of deep architecture and engineering experience with expertise in: Cloud-native data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Dremio), LLM Orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex), and AI development frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with modern patterns, including domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, RAG architectures, Agentic AI patterns, Semantic Layers, and Data Mesh.
• Expertise in Python, Spark, and the deployment of large language models (LLMs) via AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or Mosaic AI.
• You have proven ability to define, design, and deliver enterprise-scale data strategies and solutions based on sound architectural principles using architectural choices that optimize performance, cost, and security.
• You have hands-on experience with modern data architecture patterns, including domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, stream processing, Lakehouse, service-based/APIs, data mesh, and/or data fabric.
• You have demonstrated capability to research, assess, and recommend new and emerging trends and implement emerging technologies with a focus on minimizing user disruption.
• You possess excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to generate and present compelling content to guide strategic decisions.
• You have adopted customer-centric approaches by prioritizing stakeholder needs, ensuring data solutions drive meaningful business impact and user experience.
• You can build consensus across business and technology teams by fostering collaboration and shared ownership, partner with, and effectively influence architects and engineers to adopt/adhere to enterprise standards and deliver well-architected data-centric solutions while balancing technical depth with business outcomes.
• You can proactively identify and mitigate architectural risks while ensuring adherence to regulatory and compliance standards.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Python
• Spark

Benefits

• 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