Vice President - Performance Engineering
First seen by Alion on Aug 21, 2026.
Role : Technology Leader Performance Engineering (Vice President)
Location : Mumbai/Pune
Experience : 15+ Years
Employment Type : Full-time
Role Overview :
We are looking for a Technology Leader Performance Engineering to lead complex performance engineering, observability, and digital quality assurance initiatives. The role requires a hands-on technical leader and performance architect with strong enterprise technology expertise, client-facing skills, and the ability to build and scale technology practices.
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead and deliver complex Performance Engineering, Observability, and Digital QA projects.
- Provide technical leadership across architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, and production troubleshooting.
- Manage key client relationships and act as a trusted technology advisor to CIO-level stakeholders.
- Identify business opportunities, support pre-sales, conduct POCs, and contribute to winning proposals.
- Build and scale technology teams, capabilities, solutions, automation, and reusable IPs.
- Drive account growth, project profitability, customer satisfaction, and long-term client relationships.
- Conduct project reviews, risk management, architecture assessments, and technical governance.
- Mentor and coach engineers while strengthening performance engineering and architecture capabilities.
- Drive innovation, thought leadership, technical publications, and new solution development.
Required Skills :
- Strong expertise in Application Performance Engineering/APM, Performance Testing, and QA.
- Deep understanding of Java/J2EE and enterprise application architectures.
- Strong experience in RCA, troubleshooting, performance optimization, reliability, and scalability of large-scale systems.
- Hands-on experience with Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
- Experience with application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere, or JBoss.
- Cloud experience with AWS or Azure.
- Performance testing experience with JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner.
- Knowledge of databases such as Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, or MongoDB.
- Exposure to Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, or Storm is desirable.
- Experience with Agile, CI/CD, program governance, risk management, and stakeholder management.
- Strong pre-sales, consulting, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
Ideal Candidate :
A hands-on technology leader / performance architect who can combine deep technical expertise with client advisory, business development, team leadership, and practice-building capabilities. Experience building technology teams or new solutions from the ground up is highly valuable.
Skills
Performance Tuning, Observability Services, Presales, Java, J2EE, Application Architecture, Troubleshooting, DynaTrace, AppDynamics, WebLogic, JMeter