Senior Staff Performance Architect

As Senior Staff Performance Architect, you will be responsible for identifying strategies to improve and sustain performance of software in line with agreed benchmarks; lead implementation of such strategies through partnering with development and operations teams; Proactively lead design discussions to implement performance strategies at design stage. Should actively partner with business to identify performance benchmarks for software products and API layers while applying tools, methodologies, frameworks and analytical skills as appropriate, to perform solution deployment in AWS, conduct performance assessment, analysis of results and reporting.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be required to:

• Define Process, Method, and Tools across Performance Engineering Life Cycle.
• Gain technical and functional understanding of GE HealthCare's products/solutions and become part of the ongoing improvement of the performance of our enterprise application.
• Establish performance benchmark for solution and drive Performance testing for on-premises and cloud application, preferably AWS.
• Own performance engineering tasks; and deliver while mentoring and helping team members.
• Identify the scope of the work, provide estimate and create test plan/strategy.
• Supervise performance tests with the tools in place, interpret the results and identify the impacts on stability performance of the various components of the infrastructure (network, servers).
• Performing deep analysis of full end to end platform stack and recommend performance improvements and capacity expectations.
• Demonstrate the ability to debug performance related issues down to code, Driving root-cause analysis for performance bottlenecks.
• Provide in-depth performance tuning guidelines to product development teams.
• Periodically communicate performance test results, critical issues and updates to key stakeholders.
• Demonstrate command of quality assurance tools, systems analysis, automated test case and solutions, debugging, documentation, and software controllership.
• Develop standardized framework (templates/questionnaires) which can be leveraged during scoping of new requirements (product/solution level).
• Develop collaterals on latest performance engineering trends, POVs & best practices.
• Grow and evolve our performance tooling and testing processes to ensure tests are customer-like and representative of real-world scenarios.
• Define Standards and Best practices for Performance, Scalability and Maintainability.
• Introduce methodologies and toolsets that enable performance observability and sustainability.

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Min. 10+ years of relevant experience as Performance Architect with proven track record

Technical Expertise:

• Strong exposure to architecture analysis and implementation
• The ability to quickly react and adapt to changes based on Performance test results
• Expertise in LoadRunner, Jmeter or equivalent load simulation tools and should have working knowledge of UFT, selenium, AutoIT etc.
• Expertise in APM tools (AppDynamics or similar tools)
• Experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Knowledge of scripting language such as JavaScript, Python, shell, Perl, VB scripting etc.
• Hands-on experience working on cloud environment preferably AWS
• Experience with monitoring, profiling & diagnostics tools
• Excellent understanding of issues of scale and performance in large-scale cloud environments and ability to identify, debug and propose viable solutions.
• Working knowledge of Java & NET applications performance optimization.
• In-depth knowledge in the stacks of common network protocols
• Strong background in High-Performance Computing
• Knowledge of appliances such as firewalls, routers and load balancers is preferred
• Knowledge of Performance Engineering concepts such as JVM, Garbage collection, Threading
• Knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration -CI-CD Continuous deployment using Jenkins or equivalent tools
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with engineers, architects, product owners, and development managers, as well as other teams across the organization

Leadership:

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to articulate specific technical topics
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work

Inclusion and Diversity:

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviours: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you'd expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you'll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes