Associate Director Engineering - Enterprise Performance Engineering

About the role

For our client, we are seeking a Associate Director Engineering - Enterprise Performance Engineering to join the team of a leader in the Healthcare space. This leader will guide enterprise performance engineering efforts that help ensure critical applications are scalable, reliable, and ready for growth. The role will shape standards, governance, and testing strategy across the software development lifecycle while partnering closely with technology leaders. It is a highly collaborative position with meaningful influence across web applications, APIs, microservices, cloud-native platforms, and databases.

Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of the enterprise performance engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Establish and mature performance engineering standards, methodologies, and governance practices.
• Drive adoption of performance engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for application scalability, reliability, and system performance.
• Define performance test strategies and oversee performance validation activities, including load and stress testing.
• Partner with technology leaders to proactively identify and address performance risks and scalability challenges.
• Lead performance engineering efforts across AWS and Azure cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or performance engineering teams.
• Proven experience leading performance testing engagements for large-scale enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise performance testing tools such as LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, and Performance Center.
• Strong expertise in performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, and application tuning.
• Experience optimizing performance across web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and databases.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, including company and personal holidays.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and additional wellness opportunities.

Pay

$142,300 – $195,700 annually