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Capital Group · 1 month ago

Lead Data Architect

Irvine

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$202K/yr - $323K/yr

10+ years exp

Capital Group is a company focused on delivering superior, long-term investment results and high-quality service. They are seeking a Lead Data Architect to serve as a technical domain expert and drive technology strategy while collaborating with business partners and IT to develop scalable data platforms.

Financial Services

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical domain expert on foundational data and integration technologies to better support business partners and development teams

Steer technology strategy direction, define target state architectures, roadmaps, and help build reference architectures/implementations for scalable and resilient data platforms

Identify and evaluate emerging technologies beneficial to this domain

Possess hands-on expertise in modern cloud technologies, including but not limited to Databricks, Dremio, Snowflake, and tools for data governance, protection, and quality

Test and validate architectural solutions in lab environments before certifying them, ensuring robustness and scalability

Act as a thought leader in data architecture, providing guidance on governance, security, and compliance

Drive the technology strategy and target state architecture to support business goals

Evaluate emerging technologies, guiding the organization to adopt innovations that deliver value while minimizing disruption to end-users

Collaborate and lead thought leadership efforts to influence architects, engineers, and stakeholders to achieve strategic goals

Qualification

Cloud-native data platformsData governanceData integrationData architecturePythonAWSAzureData qualityData engineeringCustomer-centric approachRisk mitigationFinancial services experienceInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration

Required

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 NoSQL 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 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