DESCRIPTION:

Organization: Systems Integration and Technology - Technology Consulting - Performance Engineering


Location: Major USA Cities

Travel: 100% U.S. Travel (Monday - Friday)

Systems Integration and Technology (SI&T) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Our SI&T consultants can expect to:

work with cutting edge technology
deliver high-quality solutions across multiple industries
work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
receive continuous training
gain rapid career progression

Accenture Technology Consulting (ATC) falls within the SI&T organization and provides services aimed at improving the strategic intent, transforming economics and effectiveness, and the overall design, of a company's information technology capabilities and/or functions. Information technology capabilities include IT planning and management, IT processes and approaches, and IT assets that provide the operational components necessary to run applications.

Accenture's Performance Engineering group provides custom developed business solutions that deliver value and highperformance. Performance Engineering assists the client to assess, diagnose and engineer higher performance into their applications as well as engineer performance into the application development and testing processes to improve a customer or end-user's experience.

Job Description

- Performance Architect Manager

Technology Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering technology innovation and providing the backbone of our systems integration business. Performance Architects lead the planning, execution, analysis, and tuning efforts to deliver high-performing systems.

Performance Architects design, deliver, and optimize high-performing systems. They contribute to all aspects of the delivery lifecycle in performance prototyping, capacity modeling, performance driven design, profiling, performance testing, availability management, and troubleshooting. A Performance Architect provides architecture and application design and development guidance that ensures scalability and minimizes performance issues. The performance architect is comfortable operating on highly visible assignments, can dive deep into designs, application code, and frameworks, and ultimately provide clear insight and direction to business and IT stakeholders. A Performance Architect utilizes diagnostic and monitoring tools to detect, isolate, and resolve performance issues throughout the technology stack.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 6 years Hands-on J2EE or .NET design and development of highly scalable applications or architecture frameworks.

• 2 years of demonstrated hands-on experience with any of the following profiling, or diagnostics tools: CA/Wily Introscope, HP/Mercury Diagnostics, Quest Performasure, Opnet Panorama, JInspired JXInsight, Compuware AppVantage, Borland Optimizeit, Yourkit, Quest JProbe, ej JProfiler, Symantec i3 for .NET, dynatrace Diagnostics, or Visual Studio Performance Tools.

• 4 years of combined experience in any of the following: performance diagnostics, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, or code profiling.

• 2 years of experience with planning and managing any of the following teams: performance diagnostic, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, or software development team.

Preferred Skills

• Resource usage monitoring for physical servers, application servers, or databases.
• Ability to distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, and diagnose performance problems.

• Ability to clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders.

• Performance monitoring and integrated operational processes.
• Performance test planning, setup, and execution
• Performance test scripting and test data management
• Capacity estimating, modeling, or planning
• Application and architecture code profiling.
• Infrastructure and application performance tuning
• J2EE architecture design and development
• Application development, bug fixes, and refactoring with hands-on language experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or Life Science

• Ability to travel 100% to client site on weekly basis

Professional Skill Requirements
• Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Very good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills


Position s are available in any of the following major USA cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Florham Park, Houston, New York (Manhattan), San Francisco/San Jose, Washington D.C.(Reston, VA). Other U.S. cities may be considered.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.