Associate Director Engineering – Enterprise Performance Engineering

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💵 $142.3k - $195.7k / year

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🖥 Software Engineer

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Humana

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1961

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Insurance • Healthcare Insurance

Humana is a healthcare company dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. With a focus on putting health first, Humana serves a diverse range of populations, including seniors and the military, providing Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS plans. Humana is committed to fostering a culture of belonging and mutual respect, offering competitive and flexible benefits to ensure the financial security of its employees and their families. The company prides itself on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

📋 Description

• Lead Humana's enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model • Establish performance engineering standards, methodologies, frameworks, governance practices, and best practices • Lead a centralized team supporting multiple business segments and technology portfolios • Serve as a trusted advisor on application scalability, reliability, and system performance • Establish standards for load, stress, endurance, capacity, failover, and resilience testing • Lead performance engineering services for customer-facing, internal, digital, cloud-native, AI-enabled, and mission-critical applications • Define performance test strategies, workload models, and testing approaches for enterprise-scale applications • Oversee performance validation including load, stress, volume, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, reliability, and disaster recovery testing • Integrate performance testing into Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery pipelines • Lead performance analysis, tuning, and root cause analysis across applications, databases, infrastructure, APIs, and cloud services • Recommend optimizations for application architecture, databases, APIs, cloud resources, distributed systems, caching, messaging, and networks • Establish performance engineering reviews and architecture assessments • Develop performance engineering practices for Generative AI platforms, LLM applications, and autonomous agents • Validate AI response times, agent execution, prompt latency, throughput, orchestration, resource utilization, and cost-performance • Lead performance testing tools, frameworks, automation, scripts, templates, and accelerators • Lead performance engineering across AWS and Azure environments, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and containerized platforms • Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, AI Engineering, Product, Security, and platform teams • Lead, coach, and develop performance engineers, architects, and technical specialists • Set priorities and goals, support workforce and succession planning, mentor engineers, and promote technical excellence and continuous learning

🎯 Requirements

• 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 LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, or Performance Center • Strong expertise in performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, and application tuning • Experience optimizing web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and databases • Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture patterns • Hands-on experience with Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or New Relic • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, partner across organizations, and remain hands-on in technical problem solving • Minimum home internet speed of 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload • Ability to work from a dedicated space without ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information • Preferred: experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries • Preferred: experience testing Generative AI applications, AI platforms, intelligent agents, and LLM-based solutions • Preferred: experience with AWS and Azure cloud architectures • Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, and Site Reliability Engineering practices • Preferred: familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience testing, and fault injection techniques • Preferred: experience establishing enterprise-wide performance engineering practices or centers of excellence • Preferred: experience supporting digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives • Preferred: relevant certifications in cloud, performance engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan based upon company and/or individual performance • Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Company holidays • Personal holidays • Paid parental leave • Paid caregiver leave • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Life insurance • Personal wellness support • Smart healthcare decision support • Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings