Solutions Architect

In this role, you will be responsible for acting as the solution architecture extension of EA - Infrastructure, translating enterprise conceptual, logical, and high-level physical observability and telemetry architectures into detailed physical design guidance for platforms and applications. Guides and supports engineering teams in establishing end-to-end observability capabilities, ensuring alignment with EA-defined infrastructure, SRE, and telemetry standards across Azure cloud and co-location environments. Role & Responsibility:

• Provides architecture guidance for telemetry design and instrumentation, including logs, metrics, traces, and event streams aligned to enterprise patterns
• Observability architecture, ensuring consistent visibility into system health, performance, and business-critical workflows
• Integration with enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms, enabling centralized and standardized operational insight
• AI and platform observability, including visibility into model usage, performance, and risk indicators *
• Data correlation and analysis patterns, enabling faster root cause analysis and operational decision-making Supports the adoption of SRE-aligned observability practices, including definition and operationalization of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Monitoring strategies supporting reliability and performance objectives
• Alerting and incident response integration aligned with operational readiness frameworks Partners with engineering teams throughout the SDLC-from design through production, providing oversight, guiding implementation decisions, and ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards for visibility, reliability, and operational effectiveness.
• Collaborates closely with EA, infrastructure, SRE, and platform engineering teams to ensure consistent adoption of enterprise observability patterns, while feeding implementation insights back into the continuous evolution of architecture standards.

• Bachelors degree and 7 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 year’’s higher education and/or relevant work experience
• 7 or more years of experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns
• Working knowledge of architectural frameworks
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture tools
• Work experience in software engineering, software delivery and/or solution architecture

Imagine Staffing is recruiting for a Solutions Architect (Observability) on behalf of our client, a leading financial institution in Buffalo, NY, serving individuals, businesses, and communities across the eastern United States. Known for its strong regional presence, commitment to community engagement, and focus on long-term customer relationships, the organization offers a stable and collaborative work environment with opportunities for growth.