Solution Engineer II (Performance Engineering)

Job description

At Homesense, we’re helping people let their personality shine in their home. We’re out to bring high-quality and unique pieces to stores throughout the country. Like our stores, our work environment is ever-evolving—and always encouraging. Every shift is a new opportunity to Discover Different.

Posting Notes: TJX Corporate 9809 Home Office 7281 Global Application Assurance || [[customString13]] || Marlborough || MA || [[customString12]]

 

The TJX Companies, Inc.

Solution Engineer II (Performance Engineering)

Marlborough, MA

 

Duties :Enable delivery and support solutions delivery groups to analyze, identify bottleneck areas and tune distributed applications to meet business requirements and ensure operational stability. Drive adoption of the Performance Engineering toolsets and act as technical consultant to delivery organizations. Author sizing and detailed estimates for complex new project requests. Maintains estimate artifacts for Performance Engineering throughout the project lifecycle. Partner with BAs/Business to create/validate NFR's to meet business needs for complex and large scale systems. Partner with the Solution Engineering team on the creation of the scalable design that addresses the high level nonfunctional business requirements. Participate in Design Reviews for applicable projects and provides subject matter expertise in a given domain. Author Performance Engineering Strategy for complex applications that identifies potential performance risks and defines approaches to mitigate the risk in the later phases of the project. Author detailed workloads for complex applications to understand how it is or will be used in production and leverage this information to assess and mitigate risks. Partner with extended project teams to identify Performance test data needs and create utilities/scripts to setup required data to simulate production user behavior for a complex/Enterprise applications. Build or review scripts to simulate user behaviors or batch executions. Execute required Performance tests to simulate identified scenarios for complex and enterprise applications. Perform triage for basic to medium complexity performance issues and partner with required teams/vendors to address to performance issues. Provide guidance to an extended project team. Assist and advise project teams in the tuning, monitoring in Non-prod/prod and support of technical solutions on Performance related issues. Consult on design approaches to solving visible and complex Performance problems. Ensure compliance with Performance, Availability, Recoverability and Supportability standards and policies and provides Monitoring recommendations for tasks of medium to high level of complexity. Actively participate in new PE technology, vendor package and tool road mapping, evaluation and introduction. Actively participate in defining and enforcing the source control standards for Performance Scripts and other PE artifacts. Actively participate in evaluations of 3rd party engagement need and in SOW creation and review process. Provide input into Performance Engineering best practice methodologies and standards. Define standards for specific processes and/or components. 10% international and domestic travel for business meetings, conferences, and seminars.

 

Requirements :Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a directly related field plus eight (8) years of IT experience in the technical design, development, and implementation or support of business systems.

 

Must have 8 years of experience in each of the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

·  Software development lifecycle including the design, build, test and implementation phase of medium to highly complex systems projects
·  Business processes supported in enterprise retail application including at least one of the following: Manhattan’s Warehouse management, Logistics, or Oracle retail – RMS, RPM, RPAS
·  Experience interpreting functional and nonfunctional needs and writing or editing performance engineering strategy and test plans for new systems, systems changes or system enhancements.
·  Experience in performance engineering of distributed software systems and solutions and packaged application and technology expertise in alignment with enterprise retail application including at least one of the following: Manhattan’s Warehouse management, Logistics, or Oracle retail – RMS, RPM, RPAS
·  Functional testing and performance engineering concepts and one of the leading performance testing tools (LoadRunner)
·  Experience in Network Emulation and scripting languages Java, Python, and Unix
·  Analyzing, diagnosing, debugging and resolving performance issues using application or system metrics and tools
·  APM tools – AppDynamics and DynaTrace
·  Workload modeling and log analysis using Splunk, custom scripted log parsers, or ELK
·  Technology design experience including Performance, Security, Availability, Operations, Monitoring and Support
·  Sarbanes Oxley and PCI policies and controls

 

40 hours per week  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday. Qualified applicants please submit resumes to: Kelly Huff,Strategy Specialist, Immigration,Ref. #377132The TJX Companies, Inc., 500 Old Connecticut Path, 1D, Framingham, MA 01701.

We embrace the unknown⁠ at Homesense—and support each other along the way. Every day is a new adventure, a fresh chance to reinvent retail. Our inventory is always changing and our approach is continually evolving, which means every day is another chance to Discover

Different. In fact, that’s what it’s like throughout the entire TJX family, which includes TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Sierra.

Discover Different also means we embrace each other’s differences and unique perspectives. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

 Posting Notes: TJX Corporate 9809 Home Office 7281 Global Application Assurance || [[customString13]] || Marlborough || MA || [[customString12]]

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