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SalaryAbout the Role
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
Reporting to Head of Infrastructure Architecture, the Enterprise IT Monitoring Architect is responsible for the detailed technical design of real-time monitoring, alerting, and reporting of the enterprise infrastructure (Network, Servers, Storage, Databases, etc.) and applications used by SWIFT. The individual will work with enterprise infrastructure and application engineers and operations to ensure the continual improvement of both the scope and quality of all monitoring solutions. The architect fulfills a key role in the delivery of monitoring related services critical to both user experience and efficient effective event management. This role will be a member of multi-functional teams responsible for delivering new technologies, services, and applications. The Enterprise Monitoring Architect will be accountable to define standards and patterns for monitoring technical domain and the creation, maintenance and achievement of roadmaps and technical designs as they pertain to monitoring of IT services all of which is communicated and shared across the entire IT organization.
What to expect
In this role you will:
- Provide feedback to the scope definition of strategic initiatives using roadmaps, capability heatmaps, etc. to give insight to impacts, dependencies, overlaps, and improvement opportunities, for on premise and cloud monitoring solutions spanning toolsets.
- Contribute to the architecture review process by creating validation checklists, reviewing architectural artifacts, and providing domain specific guidance to drive architectural alignment across the enterprise
- Define, communicate, and document the architecture patterns, standards, and technologies
- Analyze enterprise business context (e.g., trends and business strategy) and change requirements in other architecture viewpoints to derive the solution architecture ‘future’ state
- Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability
- Research, enforce, and drive the adoption of design patterns throughout the enterprise and deliver standard processes for solution design and development
- Foster and maintain good relationships with colleagues to meet expected customer service levels
- Build detailed technical designs related to monitoring as a part of complex projects.
- Build and maintain 2-year technical domain road map that aligns with the technical direction of the organization and company. Collaborate with other technical architects to integrate and align all technical roadmaps. Present technical roadmaps to senior it leadership.
- Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned on a temporary or permanent basis as needed
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Rapidly acquires new knowledge and skills perpetually, ability to “think big”
- Ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations
- Ability to estimate the financial impact of individual solution architecture alternatives (scenario planning)
- Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
- Knowledge of all aspects of enterprise architecture, planning, and goal setting at high and detailed levels
- Ability to implement technical strategy and design solutions to meet that strategy
- Ability to solve problems independently, quickly, and completely and to communicate them clearly to IT management and staff
- Ability to challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
- Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong project management and organization skills
- Proven ability to build consensus among many partners
- Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology
- Ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements
- Established skills in system design
- Must be able to take initiative and work without direct supervision
- Must be able to work in a team environment
What will make you successful?
We are seeking professionals with:
- Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field required
- At least 5 years of experience in an IT architectural or technical leadership capacity required
- Experience operating monitoring tools (Splunk, Science Logic, Azure Log Analytics, PRTG, etc.).
- Experience with an industry standards scripting language (Java, Perl, Python, Powershell, etc.)
- Experience working with key office automation tools such as Visio, PowerPoint and Word.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate both laterally and up to influence decisions and actions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field preferred
- At least 10 years of experience working in a complex IT environment
- At least 3 years of experience leading design and architecture of technology solutions
- TOGAF certification
The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position in Virginia is $113,330 to $210,470 USD. Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Our compensation packages include a competitive base salary and bonus opportunity for all employees contingent on personal and company performance. Our generous benefits program includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance with no premium costs for our employees and their families, and retirement plan plus matching 401k.
What we offer
We put you in control of career
We give you a competitive package
We help you perform at your best
We help you make a difference
We give you the freedom to be yourself
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.
If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.
Don’t meet every single requirement?At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.
