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.

We are seeking a Senior Performance Test Architect to design, implement, and oversee comprehensive performance testing strategies across our organization. This expert role involves building frameworks that effectively validate system performance, scalability, and reliability while delivering actionable insights to enhance application performance.

As a leader, you will provide guidance on designing, implementing, and optimizing systems to meet performance requirements. The position combines deep technical knowledge with strategic vision to ensure applications and infrastructure perform efficiently at scale.

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.

The ideal candidate brings proven hands-on experience in performance test architecture, observability tools, and thrives on close collaboration with software engineers. You will help teams develop effective test strategies while simplifying performance testing processes, making them more accessible organization-wide. Success in this role requires balancing technical expertise with the ability to empower others through clear communication, thoughtful guidance, and streamlined testing approaches

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 appropriate performance metrics, KPIs, and acceptance criteria for various applications

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,)

Strong understanding of databases (Oracle, Postgres), networks, and application servers

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