Performance Engineering Architect for Cloud & FinTech

The Options Clearing Corporation

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 159,000 - 264,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment: up to 2 days/
Tuition Reimbursement
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend
Generous PTO and Parental leave
401k Employer Match
Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Performance Engineering Principal to define and lead the performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across OCC's critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems. This technical architect role drives enterprise-scale performance practices for cloud-native and containerized architectures, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in performance testing, strong automation skills, and deep

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on performance testing architecting for AWS cloud environments.
  • 7+ years in agile testing with Python, Selenium, JMeter, Java, and Cucumber.
  • Strong knowledge of Kafka and Kubernetes in event‑driven, containerized systems.
  • Experience with UC4 job scheduling, enterprise reporting, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proven ability to present findings to leadership and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the enterprise performance testing strategy across OCC systems.
  • Design performance engineering practices for cloud-native, containerized, event-driven stacks.
  • Mentor mid-level and senior engineers on performance testing and failover testing.

Skills

Performance testing
Automation
Mentoring
Leadership
Communication

Education

B.S. Degree in Computer Science

Tools

LoadRunner
JMeter
Gatling
Selenium
Cucumber
Cypress
Protractor
ServiceNow ATF
AWS
Kubernetes
Kafka
SQL

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Performance Engineering Principal to define and lead the performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across OCC's critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems. This technical architect role drives enterprise-scale performance practices for cloud-native and containerized architectures, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in performance testing, strong automation skills, and deep

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