Observability Architect (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Join our team as an Observability Architect for a 12-month fixed-term contract. In this role, you will lead the assessment, design, and optimization of the observability strategy for our co-location migration program. You will ensure comprehensive visibility across the new infrastructure and application estate, identify gaps in the existing observability capability, and recommend enhancements. You will also analyze telemetry, monitoring data, and operational trends, establish performance baselines, and define measurable service health indicators. Additionally, you will design comprehensive monitoring for the tightly-coupled monolithic application estate, create real-time dashboards, and validate monitoring coverage prior to each migration wave. You will work closely with various teams and provide technical guidance during migration planning, testing, dress rehearsals, and production cutovers.

• Lead the assessment, design, and optimisation of the observability strategy for the co-location migration programme.
• Ensure logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards provide comprehensive visibility across the new infrastructure and application estate.
• Identify gaps in the existing observability capability and recommend enhancements to tooling, processes, and architecture where required.
• You’re pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning
• You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams
• You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value
• Experience monitoring latency-sensitive, business-critical enterprise applications
• Experience implementing centralised logging and observability best practices
• Extensive experience designing enterprise observability solutions within large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration programmes
• Strong knowledge of metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring (APM)
• Ability to analyse complex operational telemetry and identify performance bottlenecks
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Knowledge of financial services operational resilience, audit, and regulatory requirements
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, virtualisation, networking, storage, databases, and middleware monitoring