Senior Monitoring/Observability Architect

Accountabilities:

• • Lead monitoring and observability architecture: Define technical strategy and solution designs for enterprise monitoring, observability, and application performance management platforms, including integrations across complex technology environments.
  • Design implementation patterns: Establish scalable approaches for telemetry ingestion, alerting, dashboarding, event management, and ITSM integration with platforms such as ServiceNow and CMDB.
  • Develop architecture standards: Produce architecture artifacts, technical standards, solution documentation, and systems-level strategies that support consistent and effective implementations.
  • Provide technical leadership: Lead technical teams, third-party partners, and technology stakeholders through complex architecture and implementation initiatives across large-scale federal programs.
  • Assess customer environments: Conduct system-wide technical needs analyses and evaluate existing infrastructure to identify opportunities for modernization, optimization, and improved observability.
  • Advise stakeholders: Translate customer business objectives and technical challenges into practical architecture recommendations, solutions, and technology strategies.
  • Support delivery and implementation: Partner with project and program management leadership to ensure architecture activities are delivered effectively, on schedule, and aligned with program objectives.
  • Resolve complex technical issues: Provide hands-on guidance for tactical problems throughout solution design, implementation, and operational transition.
  • Drive knowledge transfer: Facilitate technical knowledge sharing between internal teams, customers, and partners through documentation, presentations, and structured knowledge-transfer activities.
  • Support business development: Contribute to proposal and bid strategies and review technical proposals for architecture integrity, quality, consistency, and alignment with customer requirements.
  • Present to senior leadership: Review completed solutions, document outcomes, and communicate technical findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Stay ahead of technology trends: Monitor developments in observability, monitoring, APM, and enterprise infrastructure technologies and apply relevant innovations to customer solutions.

  Requirements:

  • Experience: Minimum 8 years of professional experience in enterprise monitoring, observability, application performance management, or related engineering disciplines, including architecture and integration responsibilities.
  • Technical breadth: Demonstrated experience delivering complex enterprise solutions across multiple technologies, with the ability to solve challenging technical problems and develop innovative approaches when established methods are insufficient.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
  • Architecture leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and third-party partners through complex architecture and implementation programs.
  • Monitoring expertise: Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Datadog, Elastic Stack, or equivalent technologies.
  • ITSM integration: Experience integrating monitoring and observability solutions with ServiceNow and Configuration Management Databases (CMDB).
  • Stakeholder management: Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills, including the ability to brief senior leadership on architecture decisions, technical strategies, and project outcomes.
  • Federal/enterprise consulting: Ability to engage directly with customers, understand business objectives, assess complex environments, and recommend technology strategies aligned with mission requirements.
  • Business development: Experience contributing to proposal development and bid strategies for large-scale, enterprise-level engagements.
  • Leadership: Ability to establish credibility and trust with customers, technical teams, program leadership, and external partners while operating effectively with significant autonomy.
  • Adaptability: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to stay current on evolving monitoring, observability, cloud, infrastructure, and enterprise technology trends.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Flexible work schedules designed to support work-life balance.
  • Training and professional development opportunities.
  • Career growth opportunities within a technology-focused environment.
  • Collaborative workplace that encourages innovation, curiosity, and knowledge sharing.
  • Opportunity to work on meaningful, large-scale federal technology programs.
  • Equal opportunity employment environment.
  • Opportunity to contribute to complex modernization and observability initiatives supporting government missions.