Implementation Lead

MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora, and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil, and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise.

We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Position : Implementation Lead

Location : Remote - EST / CST hours

Contract : 12 months

Rate : $75 / hr on W2

We are seeking a highly skilled Implementation Lead to oversee the successful delivery of our enterprise observability transformation. This role is responsible for driving the end-to-end migration from Splunk to Datadog, coordinating across engineering, platform, security, and business teams to ensure a seamless and well-governed transition. The ideal candidate has strong technical understanding of observability tools, exceptional project leadership skills, and hands-on experience with both Splunk and Datadog.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Implementation Leadership

Lead the full lifecycle of the Splunk-to-Datadog migration program, including planning, execution, change management, and post-migration optimization.

Coordinate multiteam implementation efforts across SRE, DevOps, application teams, security, compliance, and leadership stakeholders.

Develop and manage project timelines, deliverables, risks, and milestones for the migration.

Establish governance and best practices for logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting in Datadog.

Migration Strategy & Execution

Assess the current Splunk environment (indexes, searches, dashboards, alerts, data ingestion patterns).

Define the target Datadog architecture and map Splunk capabilities to their Datadog equivalents.

Lead the migration of logs, metrics, dashboards, monitors, alerts, and data pipelines.

Create onboarding playbooks, runbooks, and templates to help teams adopt Datadog consistently.

Ensure proper tagging, data quality, ingestion strategies, and cost optimization throughout the transition.

Technical Collaboration & Enablement

Work with platform teams to implement Datadog integrations, agents, pipelines, and automation.

Partner with application teams to onboard their services and support their migration of Splunk content.

Conduct workshops and training sessions to help teams understand Datadog capabilities and new workflows.

Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to data retention, access controls, and audit requirements.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement

Validate migrated dashboards, alerts, and data sources for accuracy and performance.

Monitor adoption metrics and identify opportunities for process improvement.

Provide post-migration support and troubleshoot issues related to data ingestion or visualization.

Drive continuous enhancements in observability maturity and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

5 7+ years of experience in implementation leadership, observability, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.

Hands-on experience with both Splunk and Datadog, including searches, dashboards, alerts, agents, and integrations.

Demonstrated experience leading large-scale Splunk-to-Datadog migrations or similar observability tool transitions.

Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, and monitoring architectures.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Ability to translate technical requirements into actionable project plans.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Background in SRE or observability engineering.

Knowledge of APM, distributed tracing, and service-level indicators (SLIs / SLOs).

Familiarity with agile project management methodologies.

Datadog or Splunk certifications.

Soft Skills

Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Able to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.

Comfortable presenting to technical and executive stakeholders.

Highly organized with strong attention to detail.

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