Java Performance Engineer

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead and successfully deliver new / complex projects (either directly or along with a team)

– Successfully deliver projects in Application Performance Engineering, Application Performance Management and Quality Assurance domain.

– Lead from the front and support the team in successful delivery of outcomes to customers through the above solutions.

– Stakeholders, expectations, and Risk management

– Develop insights from internal and external sources and take risks to implement leading-edge solutions.

– Ensure successful account entry and downstream business with new customers.

– Create downstream business opportunities in each account.

• Lead and Scale a Technology Practice

– Build and deliver new solutions.

– Responsible for successful delivery of all projects and value to the client

– Build capability and scale the team.

– Workforce planning – delivery with optimum bench.

– Through use of IPs, automation, and use of the right skills mix, improve project and

account profitability.

• Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales & post-sales)

– Be client CIO's trusted advisor.

• Client delight

– Ensure client delight.

– Ensure referenceable clients.

– Ensure higher CSAT from projects - 9 or 10/10

– Ensure 95%+ customer advocacy for Avekshaa.

• Manage and deliver superior value in Key Accounts

– Deliver superior value.

– Grow business in each account by a minimum of 30% on a year-on-year basis.

– Improve account profitability on a year-on-year basis.

• Enable teams to deliver better value in projects

– Conduct project reviews

• Innovation and Thought leadership

– Create an organization that imagines and implements unique, breakthrough ideas.

– Foresee customer and industry needs and respond with exceptional solutions.

– Identify new ideas and approaches that others may have missed.

– Produce relevant workable solutions to business problems.

– Present papers and run blogs (directly and through the team)

– Build company brand through thought leadership.

– Automate work delivery and build IPs

• Coaching & Mentoring

– Provides the team with clear direction. Should be hands on, in the space of Performance Engineering.

– Takes ownership for building capability in the organization by effective coaching and mentoring to move others to a higher level of working.

– Improve architecture skills across all team members.

– Ensure team members are happy through continuous engagement.

– Help in career progression of the team.

Skills & Experience

• Key Technical Skills: Deep experience in Application Performance Engineering, Application Performance Management, and Quality Assurance with a deep understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.
• Excellent experience of troubleshooting / RCA and solving production performance, reliability and scalability issues for large scale (minimum 10k concurrency) enterprise systems.
• Good experience in leveraging APM tools to provide deep-dive analysis on performance problems. Deep understanding of the dashboards that can be built for CIO-level interactions. Must have relevant experience with APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• Experienced in defining and realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale real- time enterprise systems. Ability to identify and define non-functional requirements and design systems to meet the same.
• Ability to review existing Architectures for NFRs and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and provide recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
• Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of the application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a must.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of cloud architecture considerations when scaling and tuning application deployments. Must have hands-on experience working on any of the Cloud deployments on AWS or Azure.
• Experience working on Performance Testing Projects. Good understanding of Performance Testing tools - Apache JMeter /Gatling/ HP Load Runner for Load testing. Should be able to review Performance Testing programs and provide directions to the team on various aspects; Workload Model, Test and Monitoring Strategy, build performance models, and optimal Capacity Planning.
• Experience in Big Data Analytics like - Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark.
• Good skills in RDBMS like: Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB
• Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools
• Good Program Management skills -Governance of large Program, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Benefit Realization and Managing Executives at CIO level.
• Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch)
• Sound understanding of technology and a consultative approach.
• Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environment and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.
• Good Pre-sales experience and have played a key role in winning business along with the sales team.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, liaison and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Good negotiation skills
• Go-getter and results-oriented.
• High energy level with ability to work well under pressure.
• Good relationship-building skills. Someone who earns CIOs trust and has the ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer organization.