Associate Director Engineering - Enterprise Performance Engineering

<h3>Accountabilities</h3><li>Lead the enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, operating model, governance, standards, and methodologies.</li><li>Manage and develop a centralized team of performance engineers, architects, and technical specialists, establishing priorities and fostering technical excellence.</li><li>Provide enterprise performance engineering services across customer-facing, internal, cloud-native, AI-enabled, and mission-critical applications.</li><li>Define and oversee performance strategies covering load, stress, volume, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, reliability, and disaster recovery testing.</li><li>Embed performance validation into Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, development, deployment, and production-readiness processes through repeatable and increasingly automated practices.</li><li>Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to incorporate performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability considerations into application and platform design.</li><li>Lead performance analysis, tuning, and root-cause investigations across applications, APIs, databases, infrastructure, distributed systems, and cloud services.</li><li>Establish performance engineering practices for Generative AI applications, LLM solutions, intelligent agents, and multi-agent workflows, including latency, throughput, resource utilization, and cost-performance validation.</li><li>Drive the adoption of performance testing tools, automation frameworks, reusable accelerators, analytics, and AI-assisted testing capabilities.</li><li>Lead cloud performance engineering across AWS and Azure environments, including microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and containerized platforms.</li><li>Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, SRE, security, quality, product, and technology enablement teams to optimize performance and cloud resource utilization.</li><li>Serve as a trusted technical advisor, proactively identifying scalability risks and guiding teams toward resilient, high-performing solutions.</li><li>Support workforce planning, succession planning, mentoring, and career development while promoting collaboration and continuous learning.</li><h2>Requirements</h2><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; equivalent relevant expertise may be considered.</li><li>10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or a related technical discipline.</li><li>At least 3 years of leadership experience managing engineering or performance engineering teams.</li><li>Demonstrated experience leading performance testing and engineering initiatives for large-scale enterprise applications.</li><li>Hands-on expertise with enterprise performance testing tools such as LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, or Performance Center.</li><li>Strong knowledge of performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, application tuning, and enterprise performance optimization.</li><li>Experience optimizing web applications, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and databases.</li><li>Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise architecture patterns.</li><li>Experience with observability and performance monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or New Relic.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, communicate with senior technical stakeholders, collaborate across organizational boundaries, and remain hands-on when solving complex technical problems.</li><li>Preferred experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.</li><li>Experience with Generative AI applications, LLM-based solutions, AI platforms, or intelligent agents is a strong advantage.</li><li>Experience with AWS and Azure, as well as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, SRE, chaos engineering, resilience testing, or fault-injection techniques, is preferred.</li><li>Experience establishing enterprise-wide performance engineering practices, centers of excellence, digital transformation programs, or cloud modernization initiatives is advantageous.</li><li>Relevant certifications in cloud technologies, performance engineering, DevOps, or SRE are a plus.</li><li>Ability to work effectively from a dedicated home-office environment with reliable internet connectivity; occasional travel for meetings or training may be required.</li><h2>Benefits</h2><li>Annual base salary of<strong>$142,300–$195,700</strong>, depending on location, qualifications, experience, education, certifications, and other job-related factors.</li><li>Eligibility for a performance-based bonus incentive plan.</li><li>Remote and work-from-home opportunities, with occasional travel for training or meetings.</li><li>Medical, dental, and vision coverage.</li><li>401(k) retirement savings plan.</li><li>Paid time off, company and personal holidays.</li><li>Paid parental and caregiver leave.</li><li>Short-term and long-term disability coverage.</li><li>Life insurance and additional well-being programs.</li><li>Programs designed to support personal wellness, healthcare decision-making, financial well-being, and career development.</li><li>Equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation commitments for qualified applicants and employees.</li>