Lead Architect, Investment Management Strategy

Job Overview

As the Lead Architect for Investment Management (IM) Strategy at Capital Group, you partner with business leaders, portfolio architects, and technology teams to convert IM strategy into clear, outcome‑driven target‑state architectures, sequenced roadmaps, and hands‑on solution guidance across Capital Group’s investment management ecosystem. This end‑to‑end, cross‑portfolio role focuses on high‑impact initiatives across IG, Front Office, and Back Office, ensuring architecture decisions translate into delivery‑ready plans.

• Enjoy generous time‑away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options.
• Receive a 2‑for‑1 matching gift for 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.

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 will also be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital’s annual profitability bonus, and a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings.

• Lead portfolio architecture for defined IM capability area(s), translating business outcomes and operating needs 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 trade‑offs visible, 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.
• Conven and align IM Architects on decisions that span portfolios, driving 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) 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 points of view with clear recommendations, and documenting trade‑offs 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.
• 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…