Performance Engineering Architect

With an installed base of over 60+ enterprise customers, Avekshaa is now looking to induct a performance engineering team that will successfully deliver some of the most complex performance engineering, performance management, and digital QA projects. Should be a hands-on, deep techy performance architect who enjoys solving deep technical issues. Be innovative and provide thought leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and successfully deliver new projects (either directly or along with a team).
• Successfully deliver projects in the Application Performance Engineering, Application Performance Management, and Quality Assurance domains (for a complete list of solutions, refer to https://avekshaa.com/).
• 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 the use of the right skills mix, project and account profitability improves.
• Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales and post-sales).
• Be the 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.
• Go to the person for technical guidance or for managing risk in all projects.

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 the paper and run blogs (directly and through the team).
• Build company brand through thought leadership.
• Automate work delivery and build IPs.

Coaching and 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 through 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 the career progression of the team.

Requirements:

• 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 in 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, which 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 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 LoadRunner for load testing.
• Should be able to review performance testing programs and provide directions to the team on various aspects: Test and monitoring strategy, building performance models, and optimal capacity planning.
• Experience in big data analytics like Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Spark.
• Good skills in RDBMS like Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies and continuous integration tools.
• Good program management skills: governance of large programs, risk management, stakeholder management, benefit realization, and managing executives at the 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 environments and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.
• Good pre-sales experience and has 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 multicultural environment.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Go getter and results-oriented.
• High energy level with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Good relationship skills. Someone who enjoys CIOs' trust and has the ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer organization.

Skills

APM, AppDynamics, Application Performance Engineering, Application Performance Management, Dynatrace