Associate Director, Enterprise Performance Engineering

Humana Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks an Associate Director, Software Engineering (Enterprise Performance Engineering) to lead a centralized team delivering performance testing, workload modeling, capacity planning, resilience validation, and performance consulting across a broad portfolio.

You will shape standards, tools, and best practices for scalable, highly available enterprise applications. You will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, QA, Data, AI, and Product teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng/IT or 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, 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, databases.
• Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience with performance monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of Humana's enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Establish and mature performance engineering standards, frameworks, and governance.
• Lead a centralized team supporting multiple business segments and technology portfolios.
• Drive adoption of performance engineering best practices throughout the SDLC.
• Partner with technology leaders to address performance risks and scalability challenges.
• Define performance test strategies, workload models, and testing approaches for enterprise-scale applications.
• Oversee planning and execution of validation activities including load, stress, endurance, scalability, and capacity testing.

Skills

Leadership

Performance testing

Performance analysis

Capacity planning

Workload modeling

Application tuning

Web applications

APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Databases

Java

REST APIs

Cloud-native applications

Enterprise architecture

Performance monitoring

Observability platforms

Datadog

Splunk

Dynatrace

New Relic

Leadership through influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

LoadRunner Enterprise

BlazeMeter

Apache JMeter

Performance Center

Datadog

Splunk

Dynatrace

New Relic

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks an Associate Director, Software Engineering (Enterprise Performance Engineering) to lead a centralized team delivering performance testing, workload modeling, capacity planning, resilience validation, and performance consulting across a broad portfolio.

You will shape standards, tools, and best practices for scalable, highly available enterprise applications. You will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, QA, Data, AI, and Product teams to