Data Observability & Platform Architect

Title: Data Observability & Platform Architect

Location: New Jersey - On-site

Duration: 12 Months +

Summary

Seeking a senior architect to design and implement a unified Infrastructure Operations, Monitoring, and Observability Framework across enterprise platforms including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Alation, Cloudera, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, and SAP. The role will establish a single-pane-of-glass monitoring ecosystem covering infrastructure, applications, data platforms, metadata, lineage, reliability, and operational governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise observability architecture, standards, and monitoring frameworks.
• Define telemetry, logging, metrics, traces, events, and alerting standards.
• Architect monitoring solutions for data, analytics, cloud, and enterprise platforms.
• Establish SLI/SLO, reliability engineering, incident management, and AIOps capabilities.
• Implement event correlation, root cause analysis, and automated remediation frameworks.
• Design executive dashboards, operational scorecards, and platform health reporting.
• Lead platform onboarding, governance, capacity planning, and operational excellence initiatives.

Required Experience

• 10+ years in Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, or SRE.
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong expertise in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, and enterprise data platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Alation, Cloudera, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar platforms.
• Proven ability to design enterprise-scale monitoring and observability solutions.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise Observability Reference Architecture
• Unified Monitoring & Telemetry Framework
• Platform Instrumentation Standards
• SLI/SLO & Reliability Framework
• AIOps & Event Correlation Model
• Executive Operations Command Center
• Monitoring Governance & Onboarding Framework
• Success Metrics
• Reduced MTTR and MTTD
• Improved platform availability and reliability
• Enterprise-wide monitoring coverage
• Reduced alert fatigue through intelligent correlation
• Single-pane operational visibility across all critical platforms