**Your role at Dynatrace** Our growing Enterprise Solutions team has formed out of a high demand from our Enterprise clients needing leadership to deploy the Dynatrace platform at extreme scale. Many of our engagements require highly experienced Enterprise Solutions Architect consultants to assess, design, and provide guided implementation assistance. The engagements we lead often help our customers navigate use cases through their own highly complex hybrid environments. Our current ESA team has developed best practices and highly effective ways to achieve success. Many of the enterprises we encounter are on a journey, transforming the way they monitor at scale, not only in production but throughout their entire application lifecycles. Our capabilities offer tool rationalization, ITSM integrations, and DevOps techniques in highly dynamic environments that span both Cloud and On-Premises infrastructure. As a Director of Solution Architecture, you will lead a team of highly skilled Solution Architects and Engineers, guiding them in deploying and optimizing our solutions across a variety of enterprise environments. You will leverage your extensive background in solution architecture and your experience in managing technical teams to drive success in complex, large-scale projects. Your role will involve strategic planning, resource allocation, and ensuring the highest standards of technical excellence while maintaining the technical acumen and the ability to dive into hands-on work for prototyping solutions, providing guidance, mentoring, and motivating the team, or reviewing team members’ suggested solutions. Additionally, you will be expected to manage and directly work with some of our largest key accounts, ensuring they receive the best solutions and services from our team. As a team member, you will find it exciting to be exposed to a vast number of technologies, teams, and techniques throughout some of the top organizations in the world. This opportunity is one of a kind and will often exercise every skill set in an Enterprise Solutions Architect’s arsenal. Our ESA team members find this job incredibly engaging, very demanding at times, but extremely rewarding. Our team members have a passion for technology, the ability to understand and assess new technologies, and understand their applicability to business. We are seeking a driven individual who has a desire to work with some of the best in the market. **What will help you succeed** **Minimum Requirements** + 10+ years of experience in software and/or solution engineering, with a strong background in solution architecture + 3+ years of experience managing a team of Solution Architects or similar technical teams + 5+ years of experience in a large-scale IT environment, preferably within a major business or government enterprise + Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience **Preferred Requirements** + Proven track record of leadership and management within diverse, large-scale IT enterprises, demonstrating the ability to adapt and excel in various organizational contexts + Experience in resource allocation, project management, and cost management + Expertise in one or more cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) + Strong understanding of network topologies, security protocols, and capacity planning + Experience with container-based solutions (Kubernetes, Docker) and service mesh technologies + Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills, with the ability to lead multi-day meetings and present to executive stakeholders + Experience with ITSM integrations, DevOps practices, and hybrid cloud environments. + Familiarity with PaaS solutions (Cloud Foundry, OpenShift) and high availability/disaster recovery designs. + Ability to work with a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services. + Additional certifications in network security, cloud technologies, or project management. + Deep understanding of application and infrastructure monitoring, observability, and performance optimization. + Proficiency in automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GoCD). + Development background in object-oriented languages (Java, .NET) and SQL. + Experience with enterprise logging technologies and strategies. + Demonstrable skills in enterprise architecture planning and design, including diagramming and documentation. **Why you will love being a Dynatracer**