Lead Architect

About the Role

TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) delivers cloud, data, and customer experience solutions with a customer-first mindset. As the Performance Engineering Lead Architect, you will define and drive performance engineering strategies across enterprise systems, ensuring applications and platforms meet stringent performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements while aligning with organizational goals. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and influencing architectural decisions to embed performance as a core pillar of solution design.

Responsibilities

• Delivery Excellence
  • Lead performance engineering initiatives across multiple projects, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables.
  • Act as an escalation point for complex performance issues and provide actionable solutions.
  • Review test strategies, results, and recommendations to ensure alignment with business objectives.
  • Integrate performance testing and monitoring into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation.
• Architectural Leadership
  • Define performance architecture standards and best practices for enterprise systems.
  • Conduct capacity planning, load modeling, and architectural reviews to optimize system performance.
  • Champion resiliency and chaos engineering practices to validate system robustness under stress conditions.
• Practice Development
  • Mentor and coach performance engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Develop intellectual property, reusable frameworks, and automation strategies for performance testing.
  • Support hiring, onboarding, and skill development plans for the performance engineering team.

Requirements

• Experience: 10–15+ years in performance testing and engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership or architect role.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Proficiency in performance testing tools (e.g., Apache JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, BlazeMeter).
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Hands-on experience with scripting, load profile development, and performance analysis.
• Leadership & Communication: Ability to articulate performance engineering value to executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Knowledge of simulation modeling and AI-driven performance optimization.
• Relevant certifications in performance testing or system optimization.

Skills

• Strategic Thinking
• Technical Leadership
• Problem Solving & Analytical Skills
• Communication & Influence
• Continuous Improvement Mindset

Pay

The pay range for this position is $160,000.00 - $225,000.00 per year. Individual compensation will depend on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses and profit sharing.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available)
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents)
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO, Vacation, or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a full-time, permanent position based in Hanover, MD, with a fully remote work arrangement.

About TEKsystems

TEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services, accelerating transformation for clients through strategy, design, execution, and operations. With a team of 80,000 professionals, we partner with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe, and Asia. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies.