NFE Performance Architect

FIS - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The NFE Performance Architect at Fidelity Information Services is responsible for developing and implementing performance engineering strategies for Java/JEE applications. This role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize application performance in a cloud environment. The architect will also lead initiatives for continuous integration and automation solutions, ensuring high performance across globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams and other architects to develop end-to-end performance engineering strategies and approaches.
• Provide technical recommendations for system performance measurement and analysis, scalable architecture, and profiling/troubleshooting techniques.
• Influence and apply the latest APM/tracing tools and work collaboratively with development teams to enable quicker resolution of performance issues.
• Actively evaluate tools, frameworks, and technologies geared towards performance engineering.
• Lead the change to support continuous integration with automation solutions for performance in the cloud.
• Analyze performance results and troubleshoot to identify bottlenecks and potential optimizations.
• Work across multiple, globally distributed teams to achieve performance goals.
• Demonstrate outstanding communication, flexibility, teamwork, and leadership.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in IT, including experience in performance engineering and tuning of Java/JEE applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent (BE/MCA).
• Sound knowledge of High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR).
• Experience with WebSphere, WebLogic, or JBoss.
• Experience with Oracle/PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience with MQ/SIBUS tuning.
• Good knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Experience in Performance Testing using open-source and commercial tools.
• Experience in creating workload models.
• Experience in Application Performance Management.
• Experience in Capacity Planning & Management.
• Experience in troubleshooting and root causing performance bottlenecks using tools like VisualVM, VisualGC, Perfstat, Oracle Enterprise Manager, JProfiler, and debugger.
• Experience with native monitoring tools like nmon, sar, vmstat, iostat, top, etc.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of FIS' products and services.
• Knowledge of the financial services industry.
• Knowledge of basic financial analysis principles and ratios.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and attractive benefits including GHMI/Hospitalization coverage for employee and direct dependents.
• An exciting opportunity to be a part of a leading FinTech Product MNC.
• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities.