Merck

Merck

Associate Director, Technical Architecture

USA - New Jersey - Rahway · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$142k-$224kDetected 9 hours ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringHRISResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • We are seeking a visionary and influential technical leader to join as a Principal Engineer for Observability.
  • In this role, you will be the chief architect and evangelist for our company-wide observability strategy.
  • This is not just a technical role; it is a strategic one.

Responsibilities

  • Create Strategy: Create, document, and champion a unified, long-term observability strategy for the entire company, covering all telemetry types like metrics, traces, logs, profiles and more.
  • Architect the Future: Design a cohesive, full-stack observability solution using best-in-class tools and practices. Ensure our architecture promotes a product-oriented approach with a strong focus on self-service capabilities.
  • Drive Standardization and Consolidation: Actively identify and help decommission redundant or overlapping tools, driving the organization towards a standardized, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage observability service.
  • Join forces with SRE team: Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, promote their principles, such as defining, measuring, and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets and how critical Observability for them.
  • Lead by Influence: Act as the senior technical expert and thought leader in the observability space. Mentor engineers and guide teams in implementing best practices for instrumentation (OpenTelemetry), monitoring, and incident analysis using AIOps.
  • Deep Observability Expertise: Subject matter expert on Observability practices and collection of all types of telemetry. SME for the tools that support them (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, BigPanda, xMatters or others).
  • Exceptional Communication & Influence: World-class ability to explain highly complex technical concepts to senior executives and non-technical audiences. Proven ability to lead by influence and drive consensus in a large organization.
  • Culture: Join a forward-thinking organization that invests in technical excellence and empowers its leaders to drive meaningful change.
  • Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, promote their principles, such as defining, measuring, and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets and how critical Observability for them.

Requirements

  • Deep, practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles, with hands-on experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs and error budgets.
  • Strong understanding and practical experience with the OpenTelemetry standard for instrumentation and telemetry collection.
  • World-class ability to explain highly complex technical concepts to senior executives and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills:

Skills

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Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is

Benefits

  • Evangelize and Educate: Clearly and persuasively communicate complex observability topics, benefits, and strategic decisions to senior leadership and stakeholders across IT and business domains.
  • Education- Bachelor's degree

Company info

  • Create, document, and champion a unified, long-term observability strategy for the entire company, covering all telemetry types like metrics, traces, logs, profiles and more.
  • Define the technical direction for a critical capability across the entire company, directly influencing the reliability of all our products.
  • Join a forward-thinking organization that invests in technical excellence and empowers its leaders to drive meaningful change.
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