Lead Architect

Capital Group; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 201,683 - 322,693; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous time-away and health benefits

2-for-1 matching gifts for charitable contributions

Access to on-demand professional development resources

Job summary

Capital Group is seeking a Lead Data Architect for Enterprise Observability in Los Angeles. You will design and govern an end-to-end telemetry ecosystem, ensuring comprehensive visibility across modern distributed systems and AI workloads.

Your responsibilities include defining the architecture for observability, managing telemetry flows, and ensuring data integrity and cost efficiency. With 10+ years of relevant experience, you will also influence platform direction and act as a technical authority, ensuring observability capabilities are foundational for operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, or enterprise architecture roles.
• 5+ years focused on observability, monitoring, or operational platforms.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems observability.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts and telemetry pipelines.
• Experience designing scalable and cost-efficient cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define the observability architecture and establish patterns for indicators.
• Design and govern the end-to-end telemetry ecosystem.
• Drive adoption across platform, application, and security teams.
• Extend observability into AI-specific domains.
• Translate strategy into executable designs.

Skills

Observability

Cloud architecture

OpenTelemetry

AIOps

Collaboration skills

Job description

Position Overview

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—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.

Qualifications

• 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).

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.

Salaries & Compensation

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.

Temporary positions in the United States are excluded from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans.

Equal Opportunity Employment

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.