Performance Engineering Architect

With an installed base of over 60+ enterprise customers, Avekshaa is now looking to induct a performance engineering team that will successfully deliver some of the most complex performance engineering, performance management, and digital QA projects. Should be a hands-on, deep techy performance architect who enjoys solving deep technical issues. Be innovative and provide thought leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and successfully deliver new projects (either directly or along with a team).
• Successfully deliver projects in the Application Performance Engineering, Application Performance Management, and Quality Assurance domains (for a complete list of solutions, refer to https://avekshaa.com/).
• Lead from the front and support the team in successful delivery of outcomes to customers through the above solutions.
• Stakeholders, expectations, and risk management.
• Develop insights from internal and external sources and take 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:

• Build and deliver new solutions.
• Responsible for successful delivery of all projects and value to the client
• Build capability and scale the team.
• Workforce planning; delivery with optimum bench.
• Through use of IPs, automation, and the use of the right skills mix, project and account profitability improves.
• Client Relationship Management (both pre-sales and post-sales).
• Be the client CIO's trusted advisor.

Client delight:

• Ensure client delight.
• Ensure referenceable clients.
• Ensure higher CSAT from projects; 9 or 10/10.
• Ensure 95%+ customer advocacy for Avekshaa.

Manage and deliver superior value in key accounts:

• Deliver superior value.
• Grow business in each account by a minimum of 30% on a year-on-year basis.
• Improve account profitability on a year-on-year basis.
• Enable teams to deliver better value in projects.
• Conduct project reviews.
• Go to the person for technical guidance or for managing risk in all projects.

Innovation and Thought Leadership:

• Create an organization that imagines and implements unique, breakthrough ideas.
• Foresee customer and industry needs and respond with exceptional solutions.
• Identify new ideas and approaches that others may have missed.
• Produce relevant, workable solutions to business problems.
• Present the paper and run blogs (directly and through the team).
• Build company brand through thought leadership.
• Automate work delivery and build IPs.

Coaching and Mentoring:

• Provides the team with clear direction. Should be hands-on, in the space of performance engineering.
• Takes ownership for building capability in the organization through 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 the career progression of the team.

Requirements:

• Key Technical Skills: Deep experience in application performance engineering, application performance management, and quality assurance with a deep understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.
• Excellent experience in troubleshooting/RCA and solving production performance, reliability, and scalability issues for large-scale (minimum 10k concurrency) enterprise systems.
• Good experience in 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 with APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• 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.
• Ability to review existing Architectures for NFRs and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and provide recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
• Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of the application servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a must.
• 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.
• Experience working on performance testing projects. Good understanding of performance testing tools: Apache JMeter/Gatling/HP LoadRunner for load testing.
• Should be able to review performance testing programs and provide directions to the team on various aspects: Test and monitoring strategy, building performance models, and optimal capacity planning.
• Experience in big data analytics like Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Spark.
• Good skills in RDBMS like Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies and continuous integration tools.
• Good program management skills: governance of large programs, risk management, stakeholder management, benefit realization, and managing executives at the CIO level.
• Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch).
• Sound understanding of technology and a consultative approach.
• Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environments and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.
• Good pre-sales experience and has 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 multicultural environment.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Go getter and results-oriented.
• High energy level with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Good relationship skills. Someone who enjoys CIOs' trust and has the ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer organization.