Lead Architect, Investment Management Strategy

Capital Group•Irvine, CA

1d•$201,683 - $322,693•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Lead Architect for Investment Management (IM) Strategy, you are a trusted business and technology partner responsible for converting IM strategy into clear, outcome driven target state architectures, sequenced roadmaps, and hands-on solution guidance across Capital Group’s investment management ecosystem. This role is intentionally end-to-end and cross-portfolio across IG, Front Office, and Back Office—focused on the highest-impact initiatives and requiring close partnership with business leaders, portfolio architects, and technology teams to shape strategic direction, connect related initiatives into a coherent end‑to‑end IM design, and ensure architecture decisions translate into delivery-ready plans. You focus first on the business problem and desired outcomes, deconstructing complexity through capabilities, workflows, data, and integration needs before shaping technology solutions. You balance architectural rigor with pragmatism, prioritizing what works for the business over theoretical purity, and you earn trust through clear rationale, transparent tradeoffs, and consistent follow‑through. You are comfortable zooming between big‑picture strategy and low‑level design detail—explicitly accountable for seeing and influencing cross‑initiative design implications early, connecting efforts across portfolios, surfacing tensions, opportunities, and sequencing decisions, and guiding teams to adjust course proactively rather than reactively through a clear architectural point of view.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
At least 10 years of deep experience in solution delivery and architecture roles, including leading architecture and design for complex, multi‑dimensional initiatives and translating business requirements into implementable solutions.
Strong technical breadth across modern application design, data and integration patterns, and distributed systems, with the ability to define non‑functional requirements (e.g., optimize for performance, cost, security, etc.) and guide delivery with architectural rigor.
Proven ability to research, assess, and apply emerging technologies through pragmatic architectures, patterns, and guardrails rather than standalone proofs of concept.
Proven ability to connect complex, overlapping initiatives into a coherent end‑to‑end architectural view, identify second‑order impacts, and proactively influence direction, sequencing, and adoption across portfolios without formal authority.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate a clear architectural point of view, frame options and tradeoffs, and drive alignment through concise architecture decision records and narratives.
Proven ability to operate effectively across altitudes, translating IM strategy and target state intent into delivery‑ready architectures, solution designs, and implementation guidance when needed.

Responsibilities

Lead portfolio architecture for defined IM capability area(s), starting from business outcomes and operating needs, and translating them into capability led target state architectures and multiyear roadmaps that delivery teams can realistically execute.
Create and maintain IM domain-wide architecture viewpoints (current and target state, “from-to” evolution, dependencies, and sequencing) that make cross-portfolio impacts and tradeoffs visible—including shared capabilities, enterprise integration patterns, and data needs—enabling confident, timely decision making across business and technology stakeholders.
Partner with IM leadership to ensure architecture direction remains aligned to evolving business priorities while maintaining coherence across the broader IM technology landscape.
Convene and align IM Architects on decisions that span portfolios, and drive closure on architectural contention points (standards, patterns, data and integration approach, and roadmap sequencing).
Act as the connective layer across major IM initiatives, ensuring designs across programs (e.g., SIMPL, IG capability evolution, FI target state, PSM, ETFs, Digital Assets, etc.) collectively move toward a coherent IM architecture—highlighting overlaps, gaps, tensions, and sequencing implications and influencing delivery paths accordingly.
Research, design, and guide cross functional solutions to complex business problems by prioritizing business value, delivery feasibility, and risk reduction, producing multiple viable alternatives, creating detailed point of views with clear recommendations (e.g., buy vs. build, automation/AI opportunities, etc.), and documenting tradeoffs with pragmatism and transparency.
Define and validate non‑functional requirements (resiliency, performance, security, operability, scalability) and ensure they are explicitly incorporated into solution designs and delivery plans.
Guide teams by starting from the business outcome and problem statement, then decomposing needs into data, integration, and technology patterns that enable IM lifecycle/workflows, including phased approaches (e.g., link vs. embed/federate; API exposure; workflow enablement supported by data access/creation, alerting, NLP/chat).
Stay sufficiently close to delivery to validate assumptions, unblock teams, and ensure architectural intent is preserved through implementation.
Apply the architecture engagement model and SDLC practices to ensure the right level of architectural involvement at the right time, identifying and facilitating architecture reviews when appropriate.
Contribute to and enhance enterprise and solution architecture standards and patterns; recommend improvements to engagement and review practices based on real-world IM initiative experience.
Ensure architectural decisions are well documented, communicated, and socialized to promote alignment, reuse, and consistency across IM portfolios.
Stay current on relevant emerging technologies and bring them into IM architectures practically and intentionally, assessing applicability, shaping reference patterns and guardrails, and incorporating validated capabilities into target state architectures and roadmaps.
Focus on applied innovation, ensuring experiments and pilots are designed either to scale responsibly or to be intentionally retired, with clear success criteria and architectural implications.
Partner with AI Architecture & Emerging Technology and other enterprise teams to leverage curated research, reference architectures, solution assessments, and governance guidance within IM contexts.
Coach senior architects and engineers on architecture methods, documentation quality, and decision discipline so architecture is built into product delivery, not layered on afterward.
Model strong partnership behaviors, reinforcing trust, shared ownership, and a business first mindset across architecture and delivery teams.