Lead Data Architect

Overview

“I can be myself at work.” You are more than a job title. 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. At Capital, we live our core values every day:
Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community.

You want to feel recognized r 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.

Lead Data Platform Architect responsibilities:
You will serve as the technical domain expert on foundational data and integration technologies to support business partners and development teams. You will steer technology strategy direction, define target state architectures, roadmaps, and help build reference architectures/implementations for scalable and resilient data platforms. You will identify and evaluate emerging technologies beneficial to this domain. You will possess hands-on expertise in modern cloud technologies, including Databricks, Dremio, Snowflake, and tools for data governance, protection, and quality.

You will test and validate architectural solutions in lab environments before certifying them to ensure robustness and scalability. You will be a thought leader in data architecture, providing guidance on governance, security, and compliance. You will drive technology strategy and target state architecture to support business goals, evaluate emerging technologies, and influence architects, engineers, and stakeholders to adopt innovations with minimal disruption.

We work with business partners and IT to plan, design, enable and mature capabilities needed for Capital Group to deliver superior, long-term investment results and high-quality service.

• 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), relational and No
  
  SQL databases, data warehouse, big data/data lake, master data management, data modelling, data integration, data quality and governance, data engineering, BI reporting and analytics, data science, ML/AI, Python, Spark, AWS, and Azure.
• 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…