Senior Director of Software Engineering- Performance Engineering

JPMorgan Chase - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time

Jersey City, NJ

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

As a Senior Director of Performance Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms (IP) organization, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that applications, hardware, and systems are optimized for performance and user experience. Your expertise in the software development life cycle will be crucial as you leverage advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies. This position requires a passion for solving customer challenges while effectively managing the total cost of ownership. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding the wide variety of internal and external products across compute, storage, network, database, and middleware. You will identify bottlenecks in architecture, design, and code, and monitor and collect performance statistics to analyze product performance and scalability across various hardware, software, and configurations. Anticipating and identifying potential issues that could negatively impact performance will be a key part of your responsibilities, as you work to eliminate or mitigate them. You will plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons, design, develop, and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis, and develop processes to track ROI and application TCO. Profiling application performance and recommending appropriate hardware solutions for various application profiles will also be part of your duties. As an expert in designing, running, and interpreting test results, you will use a variety of tools and programs to test and analyze code. Acting as a performance advisor within teams, you will ensure that performance considerations are integrated into development practices and influence leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Understand the wide variety of internal & external products across compute, storage, network, database, and middleware to identify bottlenecks in architecture, design, and code.
• Monitor and collect performance statistics and analyze product performance and scalability across a variety of hardware, software, and configurations.
• Anticipate and identify issues that could negatively impact performance and work to eliminate or mitigate them.
• Plan and develop methodologies for standard performance benchmarks and comparisons.
• Design, develop, and implement tools to automate performance measurement and analysis.
• Develop processes to track ROI and application TCO.
• Profile application performance and recommend appropriate hardware solutions for various application profiles.
• Use a variety of tools and programs to test and analyze code, as an expert in designing, running, and interpreting test results.
• Act as performance advisors within teams to find the best way to scale infrastructure ensuring that performance considerations are integrated into development practices.
• Influence leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams.

Requirements

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience working with modern private & public cloud infrastructure platforms.
• 8 years of hands-on experience in performance troubleshooting skills.
• Optimize software solutions for execution speed, memory efficiency, and communication latency.
• Experienced in both Linux and Windows operating systems, a broad variety of databases, and infrastructure across compute, network, and storage.
• Benchmark performance metrics for any given business case.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives.
• Experience in influencing engineers and leaders.
• Experience creating, tracking, measuring, and interpreting Key Performance Indicators as a basis for developing performance recommendations and roadmaps.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs.
• Direct experience in Performance Engineering.
• Experience working in a consultancy, proposal development, and engagement delivery.
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.
• Published research papers, industry articles, and product performance technical papers.