Enterprise Observability Architect (Hybrid)

ABOUT US

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy. 

We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.   

The Enterprise IT Monitoring Architect is responsible for the detailed technical design of real-time monitoring, alerting, and reporting of the enterprise infrastructure (Network, Servers, Storage, Databases, etc.) and applications used by SWIFT. The individual will work with enterprise infrastructure and application engineers and operations to ensure the continual improvement of both the scope and quality of all monitoring solutions. The architect fulfils a key role in the delivery of monitoring related services critical to both user experience and efficient effective event management. This role will be a member of multi-functional teams responsible for delivering new technologies, services, and applications. The Enterprise Monitoring Architect will be accountable to define standards and patterns for monitoring technical domain and the creation, maintenance and achievement of roadmaps and technical designs as they pertain to monitoring of IT services all of which is communicated and shared across the entire IT organization.

What to expect in this role:

In this role you will:

• Provide input to the scope definition of strategic initiatives leveraging roadmaps, capability heatmaps, etc. to give visibility to impacts, dependencies, overlaps, and improvement opportunities, for on premise and cloud monitoring solutions spanning toolsets

• Contribute to the architecture review process by creating validation checklists, reviewing architectural artifacts, and providing domain specific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise
• Define, communicate, and document the architecture patterns, standards, and technologies
• Analyze enterprise business context (e.g., trends and business strategy) and change requirements in other architecture viewpoints to derive the solution architecture ‘future’ state
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability
• Research, enforce, and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and deliver best practices for solution design and development
• Foster and maintain good relationships with colleagues to meet expected customer service levels
• Build detailed technical designs related to monitoring as a part of complex projects
• Build and maintain 2-year technical domain road map that aligns with the technical direction of the organization and company. Collaborate with other technical architects to integrate and align all technical roadmaps. Present technical roadmaps to senior IT leadership.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned on a temporary or permanent basis as needed

What will make you successful?

We are seeking professionals with:

• University degree in IT/Engineering/Science
• At least 10 years of relevant experience, 5 years in architecture of global approaches and solutions
• Rapidly acquires new knowledge and skills perpetually, ability to “think big”
• Ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives (scenario planning)
• Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Knowledge of all aspects of enterprise architecture, planning, and goal setting at high and detailed levels
• Ability to implement technical strategies and design solu