Architect

Where

Pittsburgh, PA

What you'll be doing

The architect is a key position and will be responsible for driving and implementation of application performance engineering and delivery functions as applied to middle ware technologies like JEE and IIS. This position is primarily focused on building synthetic monitoring capabilities for applications. This position also requires you to recommend solutions and designs that leverage enterprise architecture best practices and industry standard application performance monitoring frameworks. Establish best practices as part of center of excellence for end-to-end transaction monitoring that spans multiple physical, logical and technology areas. Analyze application architecture and use cases in order to identify application monitors that will help drive the application software stability and quality. Identifying technical areas of risk due to uncertainty and skill and technology gaps. Providing technology direction and guidance to the APM engineering team and also maintaining synergies with other tools and technology stacks. Resolving technology issues and help team to make right implementation choices. Partnering with other technology groups to set and implement standards, develop and implement processes, and monitor both for consistency. Responsible for overseeing the instrumentation of applications and providing technical guidance to MIS teams. Deliver new monitoring and debugging capabilities to the enterprise.

What your background should be

The applicant should have 4 to 5+ years of application development experience. Strong communication skills. Strong knowledge in Unix (RHEL) environment and scripting skills. Networking knowledge is bonus. Experience with monitoring and managing performance of large complex distributed systems. Self-starter highly motivated, passionate, enthusiastic. Exemplary relationship management skills, negotiation skills, and convincing powers. Experience with mentoring engineering teams, motivating and leading by example.

Required Schooling / Training

Bachelor degree in IT related field/master degree preferred.

Who is the client company

This is an American financial services corporation.

If you are interested in this position, send your resume to apply@kochdavis.com