Dynatrace Architect

Observability Lead / Dynatrace Architect – Key Responsibilities Lead enterprise observability strategy across applications, API platforms, and business-critical services. Engage with application teams to assess observability maturity across logs, metrics, traces, events, dashboards, and alerts. Define and establish Observability Center of Excellence (CoE) standards, including: Instrumentation guidelines Naming conventions Tagging and metadata standards Dashboard design principles Alerting and escalation standards Identify observability gaps and create structured improvement roadmaps aligned to business priorities and operational risk. Design and implement end-to-end observability for critical business workflows. Configure request attributes to enrich traces with business context such as transaction IDs, process identifiers, and service-specific metadata. Trace distributed transactions across microservices, APIs, MQ, mainframes, and external systems using Dynatrace PurePath. Define and manage Segmentations for multi-team, multi-application, and multi-environment segmentation. Use DQL for querying metrics, operational analysis, dashboard development, and reporting. Design alerting strategies that reduce noise through baselines, anomaly detection, SLO-driven thresholds, and severity-based alerting. Build audience-specific dashboards for executives, operations, engineering, and application teams. Leverage Smartscape and Davis AI for topology-aware root-cause analysis and incident investigation. Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for business services and integrate them into release and operational processes. Support integration of Dynatrace with external tools such as Moogsoft, ITSM platforms, and event management solutions. Collaborate with engineering, operations, infrastructure, and business teams to drive observability adoption and continuous improvement.