Sr. Performance Test Architect

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Kyriba is a global leader in liquidity performance that empowers CFOs, Treasurers and IT leaders to connect, protect, forecast and optimize their liquidity. As a secure and scalable SaaS solution, Kyriba brings intelligence and financial automation that enables companies and banks of all sizes to improve their financial performance and increase operational efficiency. Kyriba’s real-time data and AI-empowered tools empower its 3,000 customers worldwide to quantify exposures, project cash and liquidity, and take action to protect balance sheets, income statements and cash flows. Kyriba manages more than 3.5 billion bank transactions and $15 trillion in payments annually and gives customers complete visibility and actionability, so they can optimize and fully harness liquidity across the enterprise and outperform their business strategy. For more information, visit


Joining Kyriba Engineering offers an exceptional opportunity to lead our specialized Performance team and significantly impact performance capabilities throughout our engineering organization. You'll contribute to several strategic workstreams: participate in strategic planning, improve the observability process and tools, mentor team members, advocate for best practices. Also you'll enable engineers across the company to conduct efficient performance evaluations and empower engineering teams for implementing optimal solutions and methodologies.

Essential duties and responsibilities:
Testing:
- Design and develop enterprise-level performance testing strategies, methodologies, and frameworks- Create detailed performance test plans aligned with business requirements and technical constraints- Architect complex performance testing environments that accurately simulate production loads- Develop automated performance testing solutions that integrate with CI/CD pipelines- Conduct capacity planning exercises to ensure systems meet future demand- Evaluate and recommend performance testing tools and technologies

Observability :- Identify the appropriate performance monitoring & observability tools- Analyze performance test results to identify bottlenecks and provide optimization recommendations

Collaboration- Closely collaborate with development teams to implement performance assessments and improvements- Establish performance testing standards, best practices, and guidelines- Mentor performance testers and provide technical leadership- Create and maintain performance testing documentation- Lead performance test planning and execution for mission-critical systems

Education, Experience & Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred)- 10 + years of experience in performance testing and engineering- 3+ years in an architectural role designing performance testing frameworks- Strong expertise with industry-standard performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, Locust, Blazemeter...)- Extensive knowledge of APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools- Experience with performance testing of cloud-based infrastructures (AWS)- Experience with Distributed Architecture performance testing- Proficiency in scripting languages- CI/CD and automation (Jenkins, ArgoCD,)-
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills- Strong communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to various stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications- Background in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps- Certifications in performance testing or related fields- Background in performance engineering and optimization- Experience with AI/ML applied to system performance testing- Experience with big volume data performance testing

Key Competencies- Strategic thinking and planning- Technical leadership- Problem solving and critical thinking- Communication and stakeholder management- Project management- Mentoring and knowledge sharing- Adaptability and continuous learning