Monitoring Architect

Overview:

Responsibilities:

• Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology, find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain, practical experiments, and Proof of Concepts, and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
• Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt easily
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Utilizes the defined best practices, templates, and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates
• Rollout of the strategic monitoring tool across Banking APS applications
• SME for monitoring tools that form part of the global monitoring strategy
• Monitoring setup for Applications on Cloud and Containers infrastructure
• Host demos, overviews, and training of the monitoring tools for adoption across teams, preparing related materials to support sessions and adoption of tools (presentations, operational manuals etc.)
• Liaise with APS in the planning and scheduling of deployments
• Consult with APS teams and assist in configuration of monitoring events/dashboards to maximize the potential and use of monitoring tool
• Preparation of reporting of monitoring tools adoption and other related data points and other relevant metrics
• Participate in global discussions on the continuation and evolution on global monitoring strategy
• Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years production systems Architecting and/or support role
• Proven experience with supporting monitoring tools such as – Dynatrace, Tivoli, Splunk, Sitescope, Catchpoint
• Familiarity with supporting monitoring on Cloud and Containers infrastructure
• Knowledge of OS (Windows/Unix) based infrastructure services, processing, monitoring, shell scripts, etc.
• Proven experience in programming languages (Java and Python)
• Proven experience in application/network performance and availability monitoring
• Proven experience in N-Tier Architecture supporting a multitude of products (Webserver, Middleware, Database, etc.)
• Knowledge of ITIL functions and processes
• An excellent communicator, able to network and influence across multiple levels is required of this role
• A self-motivated, hands-on, driven individual
• A strategic thinker who can link business context to technical reality
• Desired Qualifications:
• Previous experience in development and/or support of Banking applications.
• Experience in Major Incident Management
• The ideal candidate will have experience working and being successful in a large, multi-data center enterprise environment
• Business acumen
• Communication and flexibility are important skills for this role, as special projects may be assigned over time

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering
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