Enterprise Observability Architect - Banking (Hybrid)

DWS Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 144,000 - 188,000; Part time

Job summary

DWS Group is seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Observability to drive an Enterprise Observability Strategy and define the architecture underpinning a major infrastructure simplification initiative. The role targets current-state and target-state patterns, standards, and governance across on-premise and cloud environments.

With mandatory banking sector experience, you will shape enterprise-wide observability, embed patterns, and collaborate with enterprise architecture, infrastructure,

Qualifications

• Significant architecture experience across enterprise infrastructure, platforms and SRE/observability within a large banking environment.
• Experience delivering observability architectures and reference designs for complex estates.
• Strong understanding of governance, security, reliability and regulatory requirements in enterprise banking.

Responsibilities

• Define current-state and target-state enterprise observability architecture.
• Develop observability principles, standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Shape and execute the Enterprise Observability Strategy.
• Embed observability across infrastructure, cloud, platform and applications.
• Assess and rationalise monitoring and observability capabilities.
• Establish consistent metrics, logs, traces, telemetry and alerting approaches.
• Support adoption of SLIs, SLOs and broader SRE practices.
• Design observability patterns across cloud, hybrid and on-prem environments.
• Collaborate with EA, Infra, Applications, SRE, Security and Engineering.
• Provide architectural guidance on tooling with a vendor-agnostic approach.
• Contribute to roadmaps, governance and platform strategy.

Skills

Enterprise observability

Banking environment

Observability architecture

SRE practices

Cloud and hybrid infra

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry pipelines

Job description

DWS Group is seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Observability to drive an Enterprise Observability Strategy and define the architecture underpinning a major infrastructure simplification initiative. The role targets current-state and target-state patterns, standards, and governance across on-premise and cloud environments.

With mandatory banking sector experience, you will shape enterprise-wide observability, embed patterns, and collaborate with enterprise architecture, infrastructure,