Senior Enterprise Observability Architect
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Posting Title
Senior Enterprise Observability Architect
Job Category
Systems Engineering
Language Requirements
English / Anglais
Flexible Work Agreement Type
Hybrid / Hybride
Posting End Date
2025-10-19
Job Grade
PIPSC-4
Pay Range
$127,829 - $160,581
Job Summary
The Senior Enterprise Observability Architect will play a crucial role in defining NAV CANADA's observability and monitoring strategy by gaining deep visibility across NAV CANADA’s technology landscape aligning telemetry with actionable insights, business goals, and objectives to ensure the performance, resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance of NAV CANADA’s business and operational systems. This individual is responsible for engaging with business and technology stakeholders to analyze and document the current state observability architecture by examining existing monitoring solutions, tooling, processes, procedures and establishing future state architectures which are aligned with industry standards, emerging technology trends, and NAV CANADA's future technology direction. The Senior Enterprise Observability Architect will collaborate with business and technology stakeholders develop technology standards, patterns, and guidelines which are aligned with NAV CANADA’s business goals and objectives by possessing a deep understanding of NAV CANADA’s environments, business, and operational systems. The Senior Enterprise Observability architect will also evaluate emerging technologies, tooling, and market trends to identify opportunities for innovation and technological enhancements.
This role requires excellent communication skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to balance technical expertise with business acumen to drive impactful outcomes across the organization.
Job Description
What NAV CANADA offers you:
- Challenging, team-oriented work environment
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Opportunities for growth and development
- Flexible work arrangements
- Diverse and inclusive workforce
Key Accountabilities:
- Documents and analyzes current state observability architectures while defining the desired future state to establish a clear roadmap for technological evolution and alignment with the business vision.
- Develops architectural standards, patterns, and guidelines to accelerate solution design, drive consistency, safety, and sustainability across the enterprise.
- Develops and contributes to technology strategies which transform the current state observability architecture to support business goals and objectives in alignment with the future technology direction.
- Engages with business and technology leaders to understand business objectives, challenges, and requirements, ensuring the observability architecture aligns with both technical and business needs.
- Provides architectural guidance and oversight for large-scale strategic projects ensuring alignment with technology standards, patterns, blueprints.
- Monitors emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact and recommending innovative solutions to drive business value.
- Ensures architectural designs comply with relevant regulations, security standards, organizational policies, mitigating risks effectively.
- Fosters a culture of learning by mentoring teams, promoting architectural standards, best practices, and sharing architectural knowledge across the organization.
Job Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in the field of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or an acceptable combination of education, experience, and training.
Experience:
- A minimum of five to eight (5-8) years hands-on experience designing, deploying, and integrating complex observability and monitoring solutions in an enterprise environment with a minimum of (3) years in a safety critical environment.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience authoring technology standards, patterns, or blueprints.
- Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of full-stack observability concepts and principles (unified telemetry across all layers of the technology stack as it applies to application, network, infrastructure, and cloud solutions).
- Deep understanding of enterprise network, data center (compute, storage, virtualization), hybrid cloud, cloud native, and microservice architectures.
- Understanding of system level and business observability KPIs (including, but not limited to response time, latency, error rates, resource utilization, uptime, saturation, MTTR, MTBF, MTTD, MTTF).
- Advanced knowledge of performance monitoring, response, and alerting techniques (Proactive alerting, data collection and analysis).
- Advanced knowledge of monitoring and logging protocols (i.e. SNMPv3, Modbus, Syslog, NetFlow, IPFix, WMI, API).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IoC), configuration management tools (i.e. Ansible, Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines is considered an asset.
- Deep understanding of NAV CANADA’s industry, including market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory requirements, with the ability to adapt solutions accordingly.
Abilities
- Ability to work cross functionally with subject matter experts in a variety of architectural domains to evaluate complex problems and orchestrate efficient, scalable solutions that align with business goals and objectives.
- Ability to lead and influence architectural decisions, stakeholders, and drive consensus on architectural strategies across the enterprise.
- Ability to stay ahead of technology trends, adapt to evolving business needs, and innovate to maintain a competitive edge.
- Ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, ensuring technology investments drive measurable business value.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment, supporting client architectural needs and leading collaboration efforts, sharing new ideas, and supporting the achievement of collective team goals.
- Proficiency in creating architectural standards, diagrams, roadmaps, and patterns to guide implementation teams effectively.
Personal Suitability
- Clearly communicates orally and in writing with the ability to present complex technical information with the appropriate level of detail to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Maintain effective and diplomatic working relationships with internal and external colleagues, experts, and managers at various organizational levels. Develops positive interpersonal relationships through respect for others, fairness, and tact.
- Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced environment, solving unique and challenging architectural problems, and developing innovative solutions.
- Resilience and ability to adapt to changing priorities, technologies and environments and adjust as new information emerges.
- Highly motivated and results oriented. Proactive in identifying opportunities and addressing challenges.
- Creative and innovative with the ability to propose and explore novel solutions.
Working conditions:
- Hybrid (3 days in office per week) - This position is based in Ottawa at the NAV CANADA Technical Systems Center (TSC) located at 280 Hunt Club Road, Ottawa, K1V 1C1.
- Travel may be required on occasion.
NAV CANADA is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. If you do not believe that you match every job requirement listed on this job posting, we still encourage you to apply. NAV CANADA encourages a culture of learning and growth, and recognizes that although some technical skills are mandatory, many others can be taught.
Our Company strives to create an inclusive and barrier-free selection process and work environment. If you require accommodations during this competition process, please ensure that you inform the interview coordinator or hiring manager of any accommodation measures you may require. NAV CANADA will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required.
The successful candidate must meet the security requirement of the position and be legally able to work in Canada.
We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for next steps will be contacted.
About NAV CANADA
NAV CANADA is the private sector, non-share capital corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation service (ANS).
NAV CANADA co-ordinates the safe and efficient movement of aircraft in Canadian domestic airspace and international airspace assigned to Canadian control. Through its coast to coast to coast operations, NAV CANADA provides air traffic control, flight information, weather briefings, aeronautical information, airport advisory services, and electronic aids to navigation.
Senior Enterprise Observability Architect
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Posting Title
Senior Enterprise Observability Architect
Job Category
Systems Engineering
Language Requirements
English / Anglais
Flexible Work Agreement Type
Hybrid / Hybride
Posting End Date
2025-10-19
Job Grade
PIPSC-4
Pay Range
$127,829 - $160,581
Job Summary
The Senior Enterprise Observability Architect will play a crucial role in defining NAV CANADA's observability and monitoring strategy by gaining deep visibility across NAV CANADA’s technology landscape aligning telemetry with actionable insights, business goals, and objectives to ensure the performance, resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance of NAV CANADA’s business and operational systems. This individual is responsible for engaging with business and technology stakeholders to analyze and document the current state observability architecture by examining existing monitoring solutions, tooling, processes, procedures and establishing future state architectures which are aligned with industry standards, emerging technology trends, and NAV CANADA's future technology direction. The Senior Enterprise Observability Architect will collaborate with business and technology stakeholders develop technology standards, patterns, and guidelines which are aligned with NAV CANADA’s business goals and objectives by possessing a deep understanding of NAV CANADA’s environments, business, and operational systems. The Senior Enterprise Observability architect will also evaluate emerging technologies, tooling, and market trends to identify opportunities for innovation and technological enhancements.
This role requires excellent communication skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to balance technical expertise with business acumen to drive impactful outcomes across the organization.
Job Description
What NAV CANADA offers you:
- Challenging, team-oriented work environment
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Opportunities for growth and development
- Flexible work arrangements
- Diverse and inclusive workforce
Key Accountabilities:
- Documents and analyzes current state observability architectures while defining the desired future state to establish a clear roadmap for technological evolution and alignment with the business vision.
- Develops architectural standards, patterns, and guidelines to accelerate solution design, drive consistency, safety, and sustainability across the enterprise.
- Develops and contributes to technology strategies which transform the current state observability architecture to support business goals and objectives in alignment with the future technology direction.
- Engages with business and technology leaders to understand business objectives, challenges, and requirements, ensuring the observability architecture aligns with both technical and business needs.
- Provides architectural guidance and oversight for large-scale strategic projects ensuring alignment with technology standards, patterns, blueprints.
- Monitors emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential impact and recommending innovative solutions to drive business value.
- Ensures architectural designs comply with relevant regulations, security standards, organizational policies, mitigating risks effectively.
- Fosters a culture of learning by mentoring teams, promoting architectural standards, best practices, and sharing architectural knowledge across the organization.
Job Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in the field of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or an acceptable combination of education, experience, and training.
Experience:
- A minimum of five to eight (5-8) years hands-on experience designing, deploying, and integrating complex observability and monitoring solutions in an enterprise environment with a minimum of (3) years in a safety critical environment.
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience authoring technology standards, patterns, or blueprints.
- Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of full-stack observability concepts and principles (unified telemetry across all layers of the technology stack as it applies to application, network, infrastructure, and cloud solutions).
- Deep understanding of enterprise network, data center (compute, storage, virtualization), hybrid cloud, cloud native, and microservice architectures.
- Understanding of system level and business observability KPIs (including, but not limited to response time, latency, error rates, resource utilization, uptime, saturation, MTTR, MTBF, MTTD, MTTF).
- Advanced knowledge of performance monitoring, response, and alerting techniques (Proactive alerting, data collection and analysis).
- Advanced knowledge of monitoring and logging protocols (i.e. SNMPv3, Modbus, Syslog, NetFlow, IPFix, WMI, API).
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IoC), configuration management tools (i.e. Ansible, Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines is considered an asset.
- Deep understanding of NAV CANADA’s industry, including market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory requirements, with the ability to adapt solutions accordingly.
Abilities
- Ability to work cross functionally with subject matter experts in a variety of architectural domains to evaluate complex problems and orchestrate efficient, scalable solutions that align with business goals and objectives.
- Ability to lead and influence architectural decisions, stakeholders, and drive consensus on architectural strategies across the enterprise.
- Ability to stay ahead of technology trends, adapt to evolving business needs, and innovate to maintain a competitive edge.
- Ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, ensuring technology investments drive measurable business value.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment, supporting client architectural needs and leading collaboration efforts, sharing new ideas, and supporting the achievement of collective team goals.
- Proficiency in creating architectural standards, diagrams, roadmaps, and patterns to guide implementation teams effectively.
Personal Suitability
- Clearly communicates orally and in writing with the ability to present complex technical information with the appropriate level of detail to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Maintain effective and diplomatic working relationships with internal and external colleagues, experts, and managers at various organizational levels. Develops positive interpersonal relationships through respect for others, fairness, and tact.
- Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced environment, solving unique and challenging architectural problems, and developing innovative solutions.
- Resilience and ability to adapt to changing priorities, technologies and environments and adjust as new information emerges.
- Highly motivated and results oriented. Proactive in identifying opportunities and addressing challenges.
- Creative and innovative with the ability to propose and explore novel solutions.
Working conditions:
- Hybrid (3 days in office per week) - This position is based in Ottawa at the NAV CANADA Technical Systems Center (TSC) located at 280 Hunt Club Road, Ottawa, K1V 1C1.
- Travel may be required on occasion.
NAV CANADA is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. If you do not believe that you match every job requirement listed on this job posting, we still encourage you to apply. NAV CANADA encourages a culture of learning and growth, and recognizes that although some technical skills are mandatory, many others can be taught.
Our Company strives to create an inclusive and barrier-free selection process and work environment. If you require accommodations during this competition process, please ensure that you inform the interview coordinator or hiring manager of any accommodation measures you may require. NAV CANADA will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required.
The successful candidate must meet the security requirement of the position and be legally able to work in Canada.
We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for next steps will be contacted.
About NAV CANADA
NAV CANADA is the private sector, non-share capital corporation that owns and operates Canada's civil air navigation service (ANS).
NAV CANADA co-ordinates the safe and efficient movement of aircraft in Canadian domestic airspace and international airspace assigned to Canadian control. Through its coast to coast to coast operations, NAV CANADA provides air traffic control, flight information, weather briefings, aeronautical information, airport advisory services, and electronic aids to navigation.