Senior Performance Architect/Performance Engineering & Application Performance Management Leader - IT

Role : Performance Engineering & Application Performance Management Leader ( Sr. Performance Architect) - IT

Location : Mumbai / Pune / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Delhi NCR ( Willing to Travel)

Role Summary:

Our Client is now looking to induct a Performance Engineering & Application Performance Management Leader ( Sr. Performance Architect), who will enable delivery scalability. He / She should lead and ensure successful delivery of some of the most complex projects in the world. Should be a hands-on performance architect who enjoys solving deep technical issues. Be innovative and provide thought leadership. A passionate entrepreneur / intrapreneur who will partner with us in building a High-end Technology company from India, which aims to be a Global leader in the P-A-S-S- (performance, availability, scalability, and security) Assurance space.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Lead and successfully deliver new / complex projects

- Stakeholders & Expectations management

- Develops insights from internal and external sources and takes 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.

- Responsible for P&L

- Build and deliver solutions

- Responsible for projects delivery

- Build capability

- Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales & post-sales)

- Be client CIO's trusted advisor

- Client delight

- Ensure client delight

- Ensure referenceable clients

- Through use of IPs, automation and use of right skills mix improve project and accountprofitability

- Grow the business

- Pre-sales / post-sales (play an active role in winning business)

- Client CIO advisory

- Business influenced through Branding (Thought leadership)

- Manage and deliver superior value in Key Accounts

- Deliver superior value

- Be CIO's trusted advisor

- Grow business in each account by minimum 30% on year-on-year basis

- Improve account profitability on year-on-year basis

- Enable teams to deliver better value in projects

- Conduct project reviews

- Go to person for technical or for managing risk in all projects

Innovation and Thought leadership:

- Create an organization that imagines and implements unique, breakthrough ideas

- Foresees customer and industry needs and responds with exceptional solutions

- Identify new ideas and approaches that others may have missed

- Produce relevant workable solutions to business problems.

- Present paper and run blogs (directly and through team)

- Build company brand through thought leadership

- Automate work delivery and Build IPs

Coaching & Mentoring:

- Provides team a clear direction. Should be hands on, in the space of Performance Engineering.

- Takes ownership for building capability in the organization by 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 career progression of the team

Educational Qualification , Work Experience & Skills:

- BE / B.Tech / MCA with 16+ to 25 yrs exp. 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.

- Key Technical Skills: Deep experience on Performance Engineering with understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.

- Ability to review existing Architectures and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and share recommendations for addressing the identified issues.

- 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.

- Good experience on 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 on APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.

- Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of different types of application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers are a must.

- Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint,

- Design specifications, Deployment architecture.

- Experience on working on Performance Testing Projects. Fair understanding of

- Performance Testing tools - Apache JMeter /Gatling/ HP Load Runner for Load testing.

- Must be in a position to review Performance Testing programs and steer directions towards right Workload Model, appropriate Test and Monitoring Strategy, build performance models and derive at right Capacity Planning.

- Experience in Big Data Analytics like - Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark.

- Good skills in RDBMS like: Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and Mongo DB

- Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools

- Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch)

- Very sound understanding of technology and have a consultative approach.

- Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environment and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.

- Excellent Pre-sales experience and have 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 multi-cultural environment

- Good negotiation skills

- Go getter and results oriented

- High energy level with ability to work well under pressure

- Good relationship building skills.