Lead Performance Engineer

Company: Macy's Inc.
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Overview: The Performance Lead is responsible to provide application and system architectural issues, design alternatives, tuning recommendations, and performance validation using state of the art telemetry systems and tools. The successful candidate will have a passion for performance engineering and be an evangelist to communicate the team's vision across the organization. The role requires strong cross-division collaboration with Multiple teams and flexibility in schedule. The Lead Engineer role in Macy's Technology is a hands-on leader in the design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems. Translate business requirements into well-engineered, tested and deployed application systems that are used by the business and support these systems while in production. Interface with internal customers to determine the most efficient and cost-effective approach to meet business requirements and designs, develops, tests, installs, and deploys the required software applications. Essential Functions:

• Drive NFR/Performance requirements for application and system changes.
• Participate and review the requirements and develop designs for potential performance implications and suggest the design changes if necessary.
• Work closely with application development and architects, to design solutions for performance and scalability validations with shift left and White box testing approaches.
• Experienced in understanding complex application topologies and architecture including Application hosted on the cloud and define performance approach and strategy.
• Ensure timely identification of performance issues and escalating them as warranted.
• Championing efforts to improve the team's productivity and efficiency in performance testing and analysis through automation and other means.
• Create clear and concise test plans, test scripts, results summaries, trend analysis, status reports, and presentations.
• Partner with various external teams to construct inclusive and concise architectural designs, roadmaps, and robust solutions in a collaborative manner.
• Participate in the full SDLC (RUP/Agile/Lean), including meetings, estimations, planning, and design sessions.
• Work with teams to help with adoption of tools, technical strategies, architecture guidelines through efficient collaboration.
• Remain abreast of industry trends, plan and lead practice/technology evaluations & POC.
• Serve as a coach/mentor to less experienced developers.
• Manage and delegate tasks as appropriate.
• Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives. Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way.
• Communicate & share knowledge with the enterprise through case studies, standards and best practice publications, presentations, newsletters, and town hall meetings.
• Consistently demonstrate regular, dependable attendance and punctuality.
• Perform other duties as assigned.Qualifications: Education/Experience:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or Engineering and 6+ years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Hands on experience with debugging and tuning of Application servers, JVM, GC, heap, and thread dump analysis, OS and database analysis, and messaging server related performance issues.
  • Experience with load testing tools such as JMeter, Rational Performance Tester, and LoadRunner, Cavisson NetStorm.
  • Experience with high volume distributed systems is preferred.
  • Experience in Contact Centers a plus.
  • Experience in working on cloud technologies, preferably cloud native on Google Cloud Platform would be a plus.
  • In-depth knowledge of event-driven architecture (EDA) and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
  • Experience in CI/CD, DevOps process and tools and containerization.
  • Demonstrate a broad understanding of the application flow and technical architectures.
  • Experience with tools & technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, StackDriver, Distributed tracing, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, NewRelic, PagerDuty, WireShark is a plus.
    Communication Skills:
    • Ability to communicate effectively with Senior Management and key business partners.
    • Enjoys working with collaboratively with a wide variety of teams within and outside domain.
    • Highly motivated person with the ability to learn new technologies hands on an ongoing basis.
    • Enjoys learning new things with the ability to quickly adopt and apply.Reasoning Ability:
      • Ability to perform solid analysis/troubleshooting to determine code and process inefficiencies.
      • Ability to consider options and make decisions to improve efficiencies.
      • Independently identifies, defines, and performs analysis to resolve code issues.
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        Work Hours:
        • Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.
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          This job overview is not all inclusive. In addition, Macy's, Inc. reserves the right to amend this job overview at any time. Macy's is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Macy's, Inc. - including Macy's and Bloomingdale's - will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal convictions in a manner consistent with SFPC Art. 49 and LA MC ch.XVIII Art. 9.

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