Application Architect

The Operational Intelligence Team seeks a strong engineer to develop, document, and drive the monitoring strategy and its adoption and evolution, with a focus on standards and application instrumentation for critical business applications. As a Senior Architect, you will participate in the development and implementation of monitoring strategies and solutions aligned as core to the business information flows and systems architecture. This is a unique opportunity to work with business, application development, and support teams to create monitoring requirements and build end-to-end monitoring solutions., * Rollout of the strategic monitoring tool across the client’s applications

• Act as a SME for monitoring tools that form part of the global monitoring strategy
• Set up monitoring for applications on Cloud and Containers infrastructure
• Host demos, overviews, and training for the monitoring tools for adoption across teams, preparing related materials to support sessions and adoption of tools (presentations, operational manuals, etc.)
• Liaise with internal teams in the planning and scheduling of deployments
• Consult with internal teams and assist in the configuration of monitoring events/dashboards to maximize the potential and use of monitoring tools
• Prepare reports on monitoring tools adoption and other related data points and relevant metrics
• Participate in global discussions on the continuation and evolution of the global monitoring strategy

• 4-year college degree required
• 2+ years of Development or Architecture experience for multi-tiered business applications
• 5+ years of 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/or .NET)
• 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

Desired skills:

• Previous experience in the development and/or support of financial services applications
• Experience in Major Incident Management
• An excellent communicator, able to network and influence across multiple levels
• A self-motivated, hands-on, driven individual
• A strategic thinker who can link business context to technical reality

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