J2EE Performance Architect in Boston, MA

Summary
As J2EE Performance Architect, you will be responsible for establishing a Center of Excellence around Performance and Capacity Engineering. You will provide hands-on technical performance and capacity engineering, analysis, benchmarking, and optimization of all applications critical to the Investment management lifecycle. You will provide solutions and delivery leadership in working closely with the business and application architecture/development teams to continually ensure the performance, resiliency, and scalability of key applications.
Reports to:Manager, Infrastructure Technologies within Enterprise Architecture
Duties/Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and evangelize a firm-wide application performance and capacity engineering strategy and management plan
Implement a central model (including staff, competencies, tools, processes, deliverables etc.) for engaging and delivering application performance/capacity management services to decentralized teams
Provide technology, thought, and process leadership to establish guidelines, blueprints, and standard operating procedures for application and system capacity management
Work with multiple application development, architecture and infrastructure teams to diagnose application hot spots and bottlenecks, lead performance /capacity debugging, and engineer corresponding optimization techniques and technical solutions for meeting application performance and capacity needs
Define, maintain, and manage the performance and capacity engineering tool sets to assist with timely and quality applications delivery
Translate architecture recommendations for performance improvements to specific actionable solutions for applications and systems
Work with the application and business owners to establish, benchmark, and report on performance SLAs and liaise with Operations teams to gather Performance and Capacity metrics and develop management dashboards

You must possess the following qualities:

Strong client relationship skills, as you will interface with application development and business teams
Excellent organization, verbal, presentation and written communications skills
Strong delivery focus, self motivated, multi-tasking capabilities and ability to work in a fast paced, team oriented environment, with well balanced technical and client expectation management skills

Employee Benefits

We will reimburse relocation expenses
Vacations - from two weeks to five weeks, based on length of service
11 paid holidays
2 paid floating holidays to be used in the summer time
125% Tuition Reimbursement with an A grade, 100% for a B or Pass (in a Pass/Fail course)
PPO Health Plan/Dental Plan/Short & Long term disability/Life Insurance
Up to 25% bonus!
Retirement & Pension Plan: Profit sharing contribution of 15% on top of your yearly compensation (Base plus Bonus!), Vested from day one
Personal Computing Reimbursement
Commuting Expense Program
Chartered Financial Analyst Program
Backup Child Care - two slots available daily plus "Parents in a Pinch" in-home care

All applications for this position are accepted via email. You can begin the interview process or REFER someone you know by sending us your resume and your salary history. Once you have completed the interview, your information will be sent directly to the hiring manager for decisions on the next steps. Regardless of the outcome, My ePersona will keep you updated of your status by e-mail or phone.
Experience: Required Background/Experience

10+ years experience with performance and capacity management, analysis and optimization of applications, systems software, databases, middleware, storage, and operating systems
Working knowledge of JMS based messaging platforms, EAI platforms and performance analysis experience with Web services/SOA (e.g., SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, etc.)
Proven experience with establishing a Center of Excellence (COE) around Performance and Capacity Engineering in a large corporate environment
Experience with Java/J2EE/Swing and .NET Application Performance tuning and Solaris/Linux/Wintel based systems capacity management
Deep understanding of Oracle/Sybase technologies and SQL review, tuning, and optimization
Strong architecture/development and management background

Major Pluses to have

Advanced engineering or computer science degree
Financial Services experience


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