JPMorgan Senior Director Software Engineering- Performance Engineering 

United States, New Jersey, Jersey City 

165099339

Job responsibilities

• Understand the wide variety of internal & external products across compute, storage, network, database, and middleware to identify bottlenecks in architecture, design, and code.
• Monitor and collect performance statistics and analyze product performance and scalability across a variety of hardware, software, and configurations.
• Anticipate and Identify issues - Performance Engineers look for potential problems that could negatively impact performance and work to eliminate or mitigate them.
• Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons.
• Design, develop and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis.
• Develop process to track ROI and application TCO.
• Profile application performance and recommend appropriate hardware solutions for various application profiles.
• Use a variety of tools and programs to test and analyze code, as an expert in designing, running, and interpreting test results.
• Act as performance advisors within teams to find the best way to scale infrastructure ensuring that performance considerations are integrated into development practices.
• Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on system design, application development, testing, and operational stability concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ year of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise and more broadly across the organization
• Experience working with modern private & public cloud infrastructure platforms.
• 8 years of hands-on experience in performance troubleshooting skills
  • Optimize software solutions for execution speed, memory efficiency and communication latency.
  • Experienced in both Linux and Windows operating systems, a broad variety of databases, and infrastructure across compute, network and storage.
• Benchmark performance metrics for any given business case.
• Strong communication skills with ability to present, and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives. Experience in influencing engineers and leaders.
• Experience creating, tracking, measuring, and interpreting Key Performance Indicators as a basis for developing performance recommendations and roadmaps.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs.
• Direct experience in Performance Engineering.
• Experience working in a consultancy, proposal development, and engagement delivery.
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practice.
• Published research papers, industry articles, and product performance technical papers.