Company Description
Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting Services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Transformation.
Job Role: Senior Dynatrace Solutions Architect
Job Location: Washington, DC (Remote with Quarterly Travel required for PI Planning at D.
C. or Wilmington, DE)
Job Type: Contract
JOB SUMMARY
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Dynatrace Solutions Architect / Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Unified Observability team.
The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Dynatrace architecture, platform administration, enterprise observability, and automation engineering. This individual will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise-wide Dynatrace solutions, with a strong focus on developing self-service automation capabilities and improving operational efficiency.
The candidate must be capable of independently leading technical architecture initiatives, providing expert-level guidance, and delivering scalable observability solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and long-term technology objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Dynatrace Architecture & Administration
- Lead the architecture, design, implementation, configuration, and administration of enterprise Dynatrace solutions.
- Leverage advanced Dynatrace capabilities to support enterprise-wide observability initiatives.
- Establish scalable, reusable, and standardized Dynatrace architectures.
- Evaluate existing observability solutions and recommend improvements to platform performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Provide expert technical guidance on Dynatrace platform capabilities, architecture, and implementation best practices.
- Self-Service Automation & Engineering
- Architect and implement self-service automation tools and workflows for observability operations.
- Identify and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks to reduce manual effort.
- Develop scalable, reusable, and maintainable automation solutions.
- Integrate automation capabilities with existing enterprise engineering and technology environments.
- Ensure automation solutions adhere to enterprise architecture and operational standards.
- Site Reliability Engineering & Observability
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve system reliability, monitoring, availability, and operational visibility.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to enhance enterprise observability.
- Establish standardized monitoring and observability practices across enterprise environments.
- Guide engineering teams in adopting and effectively utilizing Dynatrace capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to improve service reliability and operational efficiency through observability-driven insights.
- Enterprise Solution Architecture
- Develop conceptual and detailed technical architectures aligned with business and technology requirements.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, sustainable, and consistent with enterprise architecture standards.
- Lead architecture activities throughout the solution lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, and adoption.
- Present architectural designs and recommendations to technical leadership and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
- Participate in architecture governance and design reviews, ensuring alignment with established technology standards.
- Balance immediate operational requirements with long-term architectural strategy.
Required Technical Skills & Qualifications
- Dynatrace Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience architecting, implementing, administering, configuring, and optimizing Dynatrace solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Advanced Dynatrace Capabilities: Strong understanding and practical experience leveraging advanced Dynatrace platform capabilities for enterprise observability.
- Automation Engineering: Proven experience designing and implementing self-service automation tools, workflows, and solutions to minimize manual operational activities.
- Enterprise Observability: Strong understanding of enterprise monitoring and observability architecture across application, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Practical experience applying SRE principles and practices to improve service reliability, availability, and operational performance.
- Solution Architecture: Ability to independently develop conceptual and detailed solution architectures and guide technical implementation.
- Enterprise Architecture: Experience with architectural modeling, reusable design patterns, technical standards, and architecture governance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working with application development, cloud engineering, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams.
- Understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and software design principles.
- Ability to communicate complex technical architectures and recommendations to senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience participating in enterprise architecture reviews and obtaining design approvals.
Experience Requirements
- Approximately 8–15 years of overall IT experience.
- Approximately 5–7 years of relevant solution architecture experience.