Technical Lead (Observability Architecture)

EPAM·Poland·Удалённо·вчера

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead with strong Observability Architecture experience to support migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack.

Responsibilities

Plan and technically lead migration front runners
Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces and logs using OpenTelemetry
Coordinate with SAP LoBs, BTP, GCO, SRE and Operations teams
Identify feature gaps, risks and architectural blockers
Prepare architecture documents, decision logs, best practices and migration-readiness reports
Present progress and recommendations to technical and management stakeholders
Own end-to-end solution design, including technical decisions, gap/risk analysis and documentation
Lead teams and workstreams, coordinating across platform, SRE, operations and application teams

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience in observability architecture and implementation
At least 1 year of relevant leadership experience
Strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, including Collector configuration, receivers/processors/exporters, pipelines, routing and deployment patterns
Proficiency in designing telemetry flows across all three signals: metrics, logs and traces
Production-level implementation experience with Prometheus and Grafana (beyond dashboard-only usage)
Background in cloud-native monitoring, telemetry routing and observability platforms
Proven experience leading complex technical migrations, ideally from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (New Relic, Datadog, etc.) to an OpenTelemetry/cloud-native architecture
Capability to lead cross-functional technical teams across platform, SRE and operations
Strong architecture, stakeholder-management and communication skills
English proficiency at an Upper-Intermediate level (B2) or higher

Nice to have

Familiarity with Kubernetes and deploying OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus in Kubernetes environments
Knowledge of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools
Experience with Jaeger, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
SAP BTP experience