Performance Engineering Principal — Cloud-Native FinTech

National Black MBA Association; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 2 days remote per wk

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend

Generous PTO and Parental leave

401k Employer Match

Health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Performance Engineering Principal to define and lead performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across its critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems.

This technical architect role requires deep expertise in LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, automation tools, and cloud-native architectures. You will mentor engineers and present findings to leadership, shaping enterprise resilience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of extensive hands-on experience architecting and executing performance testing in AWS cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise-scale performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across critical systems.
• Present findings to leadership and drive architectural improvements.
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers on performance testing and failover methodologies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Architecting performance testing

Education

B.S. Degree in Computer Science

Tools

LoadRunner

JMeter

Gatling

Selenium

Cucumber

Cypress

Protractor

ServiceNow ATF

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

UC4 Automic

Jenkins

GitHub / GitLab / Azure DevOps

Jira

Postman / RestAssured / Pact

SQL Server / Oracle / DB2

Java / JavaScript / Python / VBScript

Tableau / ETL tools

Docker

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Performance Engineering Principal to define and lead performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across its critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems.

This technical architect role requires deep expertise in LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, automation tools, and cloud-native architectures. You will mentor engineers and present findings to leadership, shaping enterprise resilience.