Associate Director Engineering - Enterprise Performance Engineering

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HumanaHealthcare technology
United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary$142,300 - $195,700 per year. This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan.
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or related disciplines; 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or performance engineering teams.
Required Skills
JavaRESTful APIsDatadog

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or related disciplines.
  • 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or performance engineering teams.
  • Proven experience leading performance testing engagements for large-scale enterprise applications.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise performance testing tools such as LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, or Performance Center.
  • Expertise in performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, and application tuning.
  • Experience optimizing web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and databases.
  • Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or New Relic.
  • Ability to lead through influence, partner across organizations, and contribute hands-on to technical problem solving.
  • Preferred: experience testing Generative AI applications, AI platforms, intelligent agents, and LLM-based solutions.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS and Azure architectures, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, or Site Reliability Engineering practices.
  • Preferred: familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience testing, and fault injection techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Lead execution of the enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
  • Establish performance engineering standards, methodologies, frameworks, and governance practices.
  • Lead a centralized team providing performance engineering services across business segments and technology portfolios.
  • Define performance test strategies, workload models, and validation approaches for enterprise-scale applications.
  • Oversee load, stress, volume, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, reliability, and disaster recovery performance testing.
  • Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to embed performance considerations into application and platform design.
  • Lead performance analysis, tuning, and root cause analysis across applications, databases, infrastructure, APIs, and cloud services.
  • Establish performance testing practices for Generative AI platforms, LLM applications, and intelligent agents.
  • Drive performance testing automation and validation within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead performance engineering across AWS and Azure environments and develop the performance engineering team.
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