Solution Architect - Observability

Dws Group; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

DWS Group is seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Observability to lead the Enterprise Observability Strategy and shape the observability architecture across infrastructure, cloud, platform and applications. The role requires banking industry experience and will work in a hybrid Melbourne setting on a 12-month Max Term arrangement.

The successful candidate will define current-state and target-state architectures, establish standards, patterns and roadmaps, and collaborate with EA, SRE,

Qualifications

• Prior professional experience within a major banking environment is essential.
• Significant experience designing enterprise-scale observability and monitoring architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define current-state and target-state enterprise observability architecture.
• Develop observability principles, standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Embed observability into infrastructure, cloud, platform and application architecture.
• Assess and rationalise existing monitoring and observability capabilities.
• Establish consistent approaches across metrics, logs, traces, telemetry and alerting.
• Provide architectural guidance around observability tooling and integration while maintaining a vendor-agnostic approach.

Skills

Banking industry experience

Observability architecture

Enterprise-level architecture

Stakeholder management

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry

Job description

DWS is seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Observability to support the development and execution of an Enterprise Observability Strategy and contribute to the observability architecture underpinning a major infrastructure simplification initiative. This strategic architecture role will define current and target-state architecture, establish enterprise-wide observability standards and patterns, rationalise monitoring capabilities, and embed observability consistently across infrastructure, cloud, platform and application environments.
Prior professional experience working within a major banking environment is mandatory for this opportunity.
Where: Melbourne ideally
Type: ACN or Max Term
Start: 1 December
Length: 12 months
Style: Hybrid arrangements, 2-3 days onsite
Salary: Up to $/day ACN or up to $K (inc super) Max Term
Key responsibilities:

• Define current-state and target-state enterprise observability architecture.
• Develop observability principles, standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Help shape and execute the organisation’s Enterprise Observability Strategy.
• Embed observability into infrastructure, cloud, platform and application architecture.
• Assess and rationalise existing monitoring and observability capabilities.
• Establish consistent approaches across metrics, logs, traces, telemetry and alerting.
• Support the adoption of SLIs, SLOs and broader SRE practices.
• Design observability patterns across complex cloud, hybrid and on-premise environments.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Applications, SRE, Security and Engineering stakeholders.
• Provide architectural guidance around observability tooling and integration while maintaining a vendor-agnostic enterprise architecture approach.
• Contribute to observability technology roadmaps, governance and longer-term platform strategy.

Essential experience and skills:

• Prior professional experience within a major banking environment is essential. Candidates without banking experience will not be suitable for this role.
• Experience delivering architecture across enterprise infrastructure, platforms, SRE or observability within a large and complex banking environment.
• Understanding of the governance, security, reliability, regulatory and architectural complexity associated with enterprise banking environments.
• Enterprise-level Solution Architecture experience across complex technology estates.
• Significant experience designing enterprise-scale observability and monitoring architectures, standards, architectural patterns and target-state designs.
• Strong architectural and technical knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry or comparable enterprise monitoring, APM and telemetry platforms.
• Understanding of how observability technologies fit within a broader enterprise architecture, rather than experience limited to tool administration.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and hybrid infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, enterprise networks, platform engineering, infrastructure architecture and cloud-native application environments.
• Strong knowledge of metrics, logs, distributed tracing, telemetry, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, service reliability practices and SRE principles.
• Ability to assess complex current-state environments and develop pragmatic target-state architecture, principles, standards, patterns and technology roadmaps.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with practical implementation and adoption.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders across Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Applications, SRE, Cyber Security and Engineering.

Highly desirable:

• Experience with observability tool rationalisation, consolidation, migration and adoption strategies.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry architecture and telemetry pipelines.
• Experience designing cloud-native and platform engineering observability patterns.
• Knowledge of AIOps, event management and AI-assisted operations.
• Experience establishing observability governance, maturity models and control frameworks.
• Commercial understanding of observability platforms, including licensing, telemetry consumption, cost optimisation and cost management.

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