Performance Engineering Consultant - (US-Anywhere in the USA)

Performance Engineering Consultant - (US-Anywhere in the USA)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: CKDJA7

Performance engineering consultants to join an elite team within our Banking & Financial Services (BFS) Technology Consulting Practice for global markets. The successful candidate will provide consulting on improving stability, scalability, performance and quality of service of critical enterprise applications. The candidates will also work with BFS domain experts, strategic vendor partners and horizontal practices to develop custom offerings that can be proactively taken to market. 

This is a challenging opportunity to work with a strong group of technologists who will contribute to the evolution of the capacity modeling and system hardening offerings within the largest and fastest growing business unit. The applicants must have a strong academic and professional background and are keen to take their careers to the next level as industry thought leaders. Must be willing to travel more than 75% globally. 

Must-have: 
• Strong experience in application capacity modeling, workload analysis, simulation and s in BFS domain – preferably Capital markets, brokerage and trading 
• Experience across common networks, distributed platforms and database technologies 
• Experience working with a management consulting/Big-5 firm 
• Experience working with CTO/CIO organizations or Enterprise Architecture groups and 
• Project experience troubleshooting and tuning complex systems 
• Experience with life-cycle software engineering tools such as Rational Software Architect 
• Exposure to monitoring and system management tools such as Tivoli, HP 

Nice-to-have: 

- Product engineering experience 
- Performance testing and tuning of large systems 
- Demonstrable thought-leadership e.g. conference presentations, publications, etc 
- Exposure to EA frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman 

Education & Experience: 
- BS/MS in Computer Science from a prestigious university 
- 12+ years of IT industry experience of which at least 8+ years of experience in capital market, brokerage or trading domains 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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