Director, Enterprise Performance Engineering

Humana; Kentucky; Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana seeks an Associate Director of Software Engineering (Enterprise Performance Engineering) to lead a centralized team delivering performance testing, analysis, and capacity planning across a broad portfolio. This senior leader will establish standards, tools, and governance for performance across the SDLC.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise performance testing, cloud performance engineering, observability, and modern distributed architectures, partnering with multiple tech and

Qualifications

• 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 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 across web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, partner across organizations, and remain hands‑on in technical problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance testing engagements for large-scale enterprise applications.
• Define performance test strategies, workload models, and testing approaches for enterprise-scale applications.
• Oversee planning and execution of performance validation activities across multiple portfolios.
• Lead performance analysis, tuning, and optimization of complex systems.
• Mentor engineers on advanced performance engineering practices, tools, and technologies.
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, Product, and SRE teams to embed performance engineering into delivery processes.

Skills

Leadership

Performance testing

Performance analysis

Capacity planning

Workload modeling

Observability

Java

Cloud platforms

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 seeks an Associate Director of Software Engineering (Enterprise Performance Engineering) to lead a centralized team delivering performance testing, analysis, and capacity planning across a broad portfolio. This senior leader will establish standards, tools, and governance for performance across the SDLC.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise performance testing, cloud performance engineering, observability, and modern distributed architectures, partnering with multiple tech and