Chief Architect with Dynatrace
Chief architect at IT services firm Orion Innovation who defines and governs enterprise-wide observability standards, with mandatory hands-on Dynatrace SaaS work (OneAgent, ActiveGate, APM, dashboards, AIOps/ServiceNow integration) as the primary focus, plus secondary ownership of DevOps and DevSecOps standards like CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 15+ years of experience in technology architecture, application performance engineering, infrastructure, observability, or related disciplines
- Strong hands-on Dynatrace SaaS expertise: architecture, configuration, implementation, application onboarding, and enterprise-scale adoption
- Deep knowledge of Dynatrace APM, OneAgent, ActiveGate, distributed tracing, service topology, Davis AI, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis
- Experience defining observability architectures, instrumentation standards, dashboards, alerting, Golden Signals, SLIs, SLOs, and performance baselines
- Strong troubleshooting skills across complex applications, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, and distributed systems
- Experience integrating Dynatrace with ServiceNow ITSM, APIs, AIOps platforms, and operational automation
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology POVs, define enterprise standards, and drive hands-on implementation and adoption
- Working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform/IaC, containers, Kubernetes, GitOps, and DevSecOps practices
- Enterprise architecture, stakeholder management, technical evangelization, and cross-functional leadership capabilities
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenTelemetry, and hybrid cloud environments
- SRE, reliability engineering, incident management, and operational automation experience
- Familiarity with complementary observability platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Relevant Dynatrace certifications or equivalent demonstrated technical expertise
Full description
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Project Overview
The role focuses on defining and implementing enterprise-wide Observability and DevOps standards to improve application performance, reliability, security, and engineering efficiency. The architect will lead Dynatrace-based observability transformation as the primary responsibility, with DevOps and DevSecOps standards as a secondary focus.
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Chief Architect to define, govern, and drive enterprise Observability Gold Standards, with mandatory hands-on Dynatrace SaaS expertise. The role will own observability strategy, reference architectures, technology evaluations, Proofs of Value (POVs), implementation, and enterprise adoption across applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
The individual must combine enterprise architecture leadership with deep technical expertise, complex troubleshooting capabilities, and hands-on implementation experience. The role also defines and drives DevOps and DevSecOps standards covering CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and secure software delivery.
Key Responsibilities. Enterprise Observability & Dynatrace Architecture — Primary
- Define enterprise Observability Strategy, Gold Standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and governance.
- Own Dynatrace SaaS architecture, configuration, deployment patterns, OneAgent, ActiveGate, instrumentation, access controls, tagging, and platform optimization.
- Establish observability standards for APM, infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, databases, APIs, distributed tracing, logs, metrics, synthetic monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
- Define telemetry collection, instrumentation, application onboarding, dashboards, alerting, Golden Signals, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and performance baselines.
- Establish reusable observability patterns for microservices, cloud-native, serverless, legacy, and hybrid applications.
2. Implementation, AIOps & Troubleshooting — Primary
- Lead hands-on implementation and enterprise adoption of Dynatrace and Observability Gold Standards across applications and infrastructure.