Application Observability Architect

Application Observability Architect

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

The Application Observability Architect plays a strategic leadership role in defining the architectures that ensures the organizations systems are observable, resilient, and capable of delivering highly available systems and platforms. This position is accountable for establishingobservability and resiliency targetsacross the organizations applications, developingtechnical prototypes, and creatingreference architecturesthat support scalable, fault-tolerant systems. The architect will work closely with engineering, operations, DevOps, Security, and infrastructure teams to ensure that the systems architecture meets the organization's performance, reliability, and visibility goals while supporting innovation and agility.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Define the enterprise-wideobservability and resiliency architectures, ensuring alignment with business objectives, service level agreements (SLAs), and key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Establish Operational Excellence targets and oversights on how applications and infrastructure should emit logs, metrics etc.
• Develop a roadmap for implementing observability frameworks and tools across the enterprise, including logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, and event management systems.
• Establishresiliency standards, including fault-tolerance, disaster recovery, redundancy, and high-availability targets, ensuring systems can withstand failures and recover with minimal impact.
• Collaborate withDevOps, Operations, SRE, and Engineeringteams to defineresiliency and observability targetsfor critical systems, focusing on metrics such asuptime, mean time to recovery (MTTR), latency, error rates, andsystem health.
• Createperformance benchmarksandreliability objectivesthat help measure the effectiveness of observability and resiliency practices across various systems, including cloud, hybrid, and on-premise infrastructures.
• Set clearService Level Objectives (SLOs)andService Level Indicators (SLIs)for resiliency and observability, ensuring alignment with business-critical systems and services.
• Continuously evaluate and incorporate new technologies and tools that improve observability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must have:

• 8+ years of experience inenterprise architecture, with a focus onobservability, system reliability, orresiliency.
• Proven experience withdesigning and implementing resilient and observable architecturesin complex, large-scale environments, including cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise. infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience withobservability toolssuch asPrometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent, as well asmonitoring, logging, and distributed tracingsystems.
• Demonstrated success in leading efforts to improvesystem resiliencethrough architectures that supporthigh availability, fault tolerance, anddisaster recovery.

Nice-to-have:

• Strong understanding ofresiliency patternssuch ascircuit breakers, retries, fallbacks, andgraceful degradation.
• Deep understanding of observability technologies (Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.) and emerging industry standards (OpenTelemetry).
• Experience withdistributed systems architecture,cloud platforms(AWS, Azure, GCP), and microservices-based architectures.
• Familiarity withDevOps practicesandCI/CD pipelinesfor automating deployment, monitoring, and testing.

Whats in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

Job Skills

Additional Job Details

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above