Chief Architect – Dynatrace Observability
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect specializing in Dynatrace and Enterprise Observability to define, govern, and drive observability standards across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
This role will lead the architecture, standardization, implementation, and adoption of Dynatrace across a diverse technology landscape. The ideal candidate combines deep Dynatrace technical expertise with enterprise architecture leadership, hands-on technology evaluation, and large-scale implementation experience.
Key Responsibilities
Dynatrace Enterprise Architecture
- Define and govern enterprise Dynatrace architecture, reference designs, deployment patterns, and observability standards.
- Establish standardized Dynatrace implementation and onboarding frameworks across applications and infrastructure.
- Define instrumentation and monitoring approaches for microservices, APIs, databases, Kubernetes, cloud-native, hybrid, and legacy applications.
- Establish enterprise standards for Dynatrace configuration, data collection, access, scalability, and platform integration.
Observability Strategy and Standards
- Define enterprise observability standards covering application performance, infrastructure, metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and user experience monitoring.
- Establish standards for dashboards, alerting, service health, problem detection, and root-cause analysis.
- Define SLIs, SLOs, Golden Signals, and alert optimization practices.
- Develop observability maturity assessments and application onboarding guidelines.
- Drive consistency in monitoring coverage, telemetry quality, and operational visibility.
Dynatrace Implementation and Integration
- Lead Dynatrace implementation and onboarding across enterprise applications, cloud environments, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
- Establish reusable instrumentation patterns, dashboards, alerting configurations, and implementation templates.
- Integrate Dynatrace with incident management, ITSM, AIOps, and operational automation platforms.
- Assess existing observability implementations, identify gaps, and define remediation roadmaps.
- Improve application performance visibility, anomaly detection, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
Technology Evaluation and Governance
- Lead Dynatrace-related Proofs of Concept and Proofs of Value (POCs/POVs).
- Define evaluation criteria, success measures, technical scorecards, and architecture recommendations.
- Evaluate observability capabilities, integrations, deployment options, and enterprise scalability.
- Maintain enterprise observability reference architectures, standards, reusable assets, and implementation documentation.
- Work with application, infrastructure, cloud, platform, security, and operations teams to drive adoption.
Supporting Platform Engineering
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform engineering teams to automate observability onboarding and configuration.
- Integrate monitoring and observability requirements into CI/CD and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
- Apply relevant knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps to support enterprise observability.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience in Dynatrace and enterprise observability architecture.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing Dynatrace across multiple applications, platforms, or business units.
- Strong knowledge of Dynatrace APM, instrumentation, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and problem detection.
- Experience with Dynatrace components and capabilities such as OneAgent, ActiveGate, and Davis AI, as relevant to the environment.
- Strong understanding of metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry, application performance, and distributed systems.
- Experience defining enterprise observability standards, reference architectures, onboarding frameworks, and implementation roadmaps.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical evaluations, POCs/POVs, and enterprise implementation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management, architecture governance, communication, and technical leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or other cloud observability environments.
- Familiarity with SLI/SLO frameworks, AIOps, incident correlation, ITSM integration, and automated remediation.
- Experience with Terraform, CI/CD automation, GitOps, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience defining enterprise maturity models, observability dashboards, and reusable onboarding templates.
Success Measures
- Consistent adoption of enterprise Dynatrace standards.
- Improved observability coverage across applications and infrastructure.
- Better incident detection, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Reduced alert noise and improved service reliability.
- Reusable architecture patterns and automated onboarding across enterprise teams.
Interested candidates should submit a current resume highlighting Dynatrace architecture, enterprise observability implementation, platform standardization, and technology evaluation experience.
