Senior Performance Architect

Dexian Signature Consultants - Charlotte, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Charlotte, NC

10,001+ employees

About the position

The Senior Performance Architect at Dexian is responsible for defining performance considerations for large-scale deployments, driving performance improvements, and implementing performance measurement scenarios. This role involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to analyze product performance capabilities, identify risks, and finalize design decisions. The architect will also focus on capacity planning, optimization, and continuous improvement of tools and processes to enhance performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Define performance considerations and parameters for large-scale deployments and drive performance improvements
• Publish recommendations to tune performance covering functional and operational concerns
• Implement performance measurement scenarios for various deployment models
• Lead performance engineering strategy and implement performance tools, automation, and reports
• Identify performance bottlenecks and propose solutions to address these
• Partner with product and engineering teams in technical scoping on cost and complexity of analyzing product performance capabilities
• Identify key risks, explore technology options, and finalize design and implementation decisions
• Balance strategic and tactical thinking in maximizing engineering investments in improving performance and scale
• Gather and analyze metrics to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Perform capacity planning and optimization
• Proactively spot performance bottlenecks and highlight areas for improvement
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies, industry trends, and best practices for performance optimizations and capacity planning
• Continuously improve tools, processes, and procedures
• Monitor and review resource utilization trends for cost optimization
• Bring innovative ideas and solve complex technology problems
• Track and improve key performance and productivity indicators
• Exhibit behavioral traits that indicate excellent communication and collaboration skills

Requirements

• Bachelor's in computer science or related engineering discipline
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering or IT
• 3+ years of experience improving availability, scalability, and resiliency of distributed systems and cloud/SaaS platforms