Application Architect

Job Description:

• Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Architecture the Enterprise IT Monitoring Architect is responsible for the detailed technical design of realtime monitoring alerting and reporting of the enterprise infrastructure (Network Servers Storage Databases etc.) and applications used by the client.
• The individual will work with enterprise infrastructure and application engineers and operations to ensure the continual improvement of both the scope and quality of all monitoring solutions.
• The architect fulfills a key role in the delivery of monitoringrelated services critical to both user experience and efficient effective event management.
• This role will be a member of multifunctional teams responsible for delivering new technologies services and applications.
• The Enterprise Monitoring Architect will be accountable for defining standards and patterns for monitoring the technical domain and the creation maintenance and achievement of roadmaps and technical designs as they pertain to the monitoring of IT services all of which are communicated and shared across the entire IT organization.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging roadmaps capability heatmaps etc. to give visibility to impacts dependencies overlaps and improvement opportunities for onpremise and cloud monitoring solutions spanning toolsets.
• Contribute to the architecture review process by creating validation checklists reviewing architectural artifacts and providing domainspecific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise
• Define communicate and document the architecture patterns standards and technologies
• Analyse enterprise business context (e.g. trends and business strategy) and change requirements in other architecture viewpoints to derive the solution architecture future state
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements such as scalability maintainability security reliability extensibility flexibility availability and manageability
• Research enforce and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and deliver best practices for solution design and development
• Foster and maintain good relationships with colleagues to meet expected customer service levels
• Build detailed technical designs related to monitoring as a part of complex projects.
• Build and maintain a 2year technical domain roadmap that aligns with the technical direction of the organization and company. Collaborate with other technical architects to integrate and align all technical roadmaps. Present technical roadmaps to senior IT leadership.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned on a temporary or permanent basis as needed

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Rapidly acquires new knowledge and skills perpetually ability to think big
• Ability to understand the longterm and shortterm perspectives of situations
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives (scenario planning)
• Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Knowledge of all aspects of enterprise architecture planning and goal setting at high and detailed levels
• Ability to implement technical strategy and design solutions to meet that strategy
• Ability to solve problems independently quickly and completely and to communicate them clearly to IT management and staff
• Ability to challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders
• Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology
• Ability to establish implement and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements
• Established skills in system design
• Must be able to take initiative and work without direct supervision
• Must be able to work in a team environment

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems Computer Science Engineering Telecommunications or a related field required
• Masters degree in Management Information Systems Computer Science or a related field preferred
• TOGAF certification preferred
• At least 5 years of experience in an IT architectural or technical leadership capacity required
• At least 3 years of experience leading design and architecture of technology solutions preferred
• At least 10 years of experience working in a complex IT environment is preferred
• Experience operating monitoring tools (Splunk Science Logic Azure Log Analytics PRTG etc.).
• Experience with industrystandard scripting languages (Java Perl Python PowerShell etc.)
• Experience working with key office automation tools such as Visio PowerPoint and Word.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate laterally and up to influence decisions and actions.

Project Name:

• Enterprise Observability
  

Specific Skills:

• AI Ops Senior (69)
• Enterprise Architecture Expert (10)
• Monitoring and Observability Expert (10)