Solutions Architect (Observability)

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Solutions Architect (Observability)

Location: Buffalo, NY

Hire Type: Contingent

Pay Range: $43.00 - $70.00/hour

Work Type: Full-time

Work Model: Remote

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm

Recruiter Contact: Sean Pebbles| View phone number on ziprecruiter.com| View email address on ziprecruiter.com

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

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.

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:

Tasks That Will Lead to Your Success

• 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.

Skills & Experience

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

• 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