Define the integration architecture, API contracts, data models, authentication patterns, and event flows connecting Backstage to enterprise observability, ITSM, and monitoring platforms
Architect the Monitoring Integration capability, embed existing dashboards (e.g., Grafana/LGTM) per catalog entity, and establish entity-to-dashboard mapping and authentication passthrough
Design the ITSM/CMDB integration, including the Configuration Item (CI) schema mapping layer, catalog-to-CMDB and ownership/tag synchronization jobs, ticket-creation flows, and reconciliation/error handling
Architect the GitOps integration with ArgoCD, covering plugin integration, API authentication, entity-annotation mapping, and RBAC projection to provide deployment-status visibility within the developer portal
Own the Announcements and Notifications integration, including upstream plugin configuration, notification channels such as email/Teams webhooks, and publisher RBAC
Define the Databases Visibility integration for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, and the Search integration with Elasticsearch/pgsearch backend and catalog/TechDocs indexers
Architect the SDD Document Generation capability, defining how architecture documentation is generated from repository/catalog metadata and infrastructure-as-code module outputs, triggered via Backstage actions/templates
Design dashboards, reporting, and enterprise-integration views spanning Backstage, Infrastructure, and Integration workstreams
Collaborate with the Backstage Architect on plugin/data-model alignment and with the Azure and VMware Architects to ensure infrastructure telemetry and metadata are correctly surfaced in the portal
Provide integration-architecture governance during Implementation, validate end-to-end service visibility, and support monitoring, reconciliation, and documentation-generation processes during Adoption