Citi Group Sr Performance Engineer 

United States, Texas, Irving 

296498463

Responsibilities:

• The Sr. Performance Engineer is responsible to partner with multiple technology teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals; identify and define necessary system enhancements; analyze existing system logic, identify problems; and recommend and implements solutions.

• Provides expertise in area and an advanced level of understanding of the principles of apps support.

• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives for complex, high impact application enhancements and problem resolution through in-depth analysis and evaluation of complex business processes, systems and industry standards; documents requirements.

• Partners with multiple technology areas and management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals.

• Works closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Systems Analysts to determine and document Systems impacts and support requirements

• Considers the implications of the application of technology to the current environment.

• Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact; proposes risk mitigation options.

• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts; allocates work.

• Provides in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

• Directly impacts the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services.

• Persuades and influences others through strong and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills

• Performs other duties and functions as assigned

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• Ensure optimally performing production applications by establishing application and transaction SLAs for performance, implementing proactive application monitoring, alarming and reporting, and ensuring adherence to and measurement against defined SLAs.

• Work closely with Development Leads/Architects on designing/implementing code optimizations.

• Provide technical consulting and mentoring to team members on optimization techniques, new algorithm design, implementation and conformance to architecture standards.

• Provide for proactive performance issue identification and root cause analysis.

• Identify and standardize performance engineering, testing and certification approach and success criteria including governance of performance test executions, analyzing performance test results and identifying tuning/optimization opportunities based on test results( Mainframe).

• Produce performance testing workload definition and analysis, factoring in known or projected volumes and transaction mix, to ensure coverage of critical business transactions.

• Engage technology stack owners for results analysis, product tuning, and recommendations implementation.

• Establish application performance baselines and re-evaluate them at least quarterly based on Organic/Additional growth.

• Monitor/Report trending application performance and identify opportunities for optimization in the application as well as components in the technology stack.

• Integrate with Business Analyst and Solutions Architects to Drive Performance throughout the Project Lifecycle and define Non-Functional Requirements related to Performance & Capacity.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years experience

• Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal skills and relationship building skills

• Service oriented attitude

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Experience working or leading requirement gathering efforts for multiple large development projects at one-time

• Proficient using basic technical tools and systems

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

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