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Humana

Associate Director Engineering – Enterprise Performance Engineering

Humana

. Lead Humana's enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model .

Posted 10/8/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $142,300 - $195,700 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in leading performance engineering strategies, methodologies, and best practices for enterprise-scale applications, with a strong focus on application scalability, reliability, and system performance. Proficient in integrating performance testing into Agile and DevOps environments while mentoring and developing engineering teams.

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Performance Engineering LeadershipLoadRunner EnterprisePerformance Analysis and TuningAWS and Azure Cloud ArchitecturesGenerative AI Application Testing

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Hard Skills
Performance TestingCapacity PlanningWorkload ModelingApplication TuningJavaREST APIsMicroservicesDistributed SystemsCloud-Native ApplicationsDatabase Optimization
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationMentoringProblem SolvingInfluence
Tools & Technologies
LoadRunner EnterpriseBlazeMeterApache JMeterDatadogSplunkDynatraceNew RelicCI/CD PipelinesAgile MethodologiesDevOps Practices
Certifications & Qualifications
Cloud CertificationsPerformance Engineering CertificationsDevOps CertificationsSite Reliability Engineering Certifications
Industry Keywords
HealthcareInsuranceFinancial ServicesRegulated IndustriesDigital TransformationCloud ModernizationChaos EngineeringResilience TestingFault Injection TechniquesEnterprise-Wide Performance Engineering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ApacheAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerJavaJMeterKubernetesMicroservicesOpenShiftSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead Humana's enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model
  • Establish performance engineering standards, methodologies, frameworks, governance practices, and best practices
  • Lead a centralized team supporting multiple business segments and technology portfolios
  • Serve as a trusted advisor on application scalability, reliability, and system performance
  • Establish standards for load, stress, endurance, capacity, failover, and resilience testing
  • Lead performance engineering services for customer-facing, internal, digital, cloud-native, AI-enabled, and mission-critical applications
  • Define performance test strategies, workload models, and testing approaches for enterprise-scale applications
  • Oversee performance validation including load, stress, volume, spike, endurance, scalability, capacity, reliability, and disaster recovery testing
  • Integrate performance testing into Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery pipelines
  • Lead performance analysis, tuning, and root cause analysis across applications, databases, infrastructure, APIs, and cloud services
  • Recommend optimizations for application architecture, databases, APIs, cloud resources, distributed systems, caching, messaging, and networks
  • Establish performance engineering reviews and architecture assessments
  • Develop performance engineering practices for Generative AI platforms, LLM applications, and autonomous agents
  • Validate AI response times, agent execution, prompt latency, throughput, orchestration, resource utilization, and cost-performance
  • Lead performance testing tools, frameworks, automation, scripts, templates, and accelerators
  • Lead performance engineering across AWS and Azure environments, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and containerized platforms
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, AI Engineering, Product, Security, and platform teams
  • Lead, coach, and develop performance engineers, architects, and technical specialists
  • Set priorities and goals, support workforce and succession planning, mentor engineers, and promote technical excellence and continuous learning

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or related disciplines
  • 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or performance engineering teams
  • Proven experience leading performance testing engagements for large-scale enterprise applications
  • Hands-on experience with LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, or Performance Center
  • Strong expertise in performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, and application tuning
  • Experience optimizing web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and databases
  • Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture patterns
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, or New Relic
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, partner across organizations, and remain hands-on in technical problem solving
  • Minimum home internet speed of 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload
  • Ability to work from a dedicated space without ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information
  • Preferred: experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries
  • Preferred: experience testing Generative AI applications, AI platforms, intelligent agents, and LLM-based solutions
  • Preferred: experience with AWS and Azure cloud architectures
  • Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, and Site Reliability Engineering practices
  • Preferred: familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience testing, and fault injection techniques
  • Preferred: experience establishing enterprise-wide performance engineering practices or centers of excellence
  • Preferred: experience supporting digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives
  • Preferred: relevant certifications in cloud, performance engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Bonus incentive plan based upon company and/or individual performance
  • Medical benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off
  • Company holidays
  • Personal holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid caregiver leave
  • Short-term disability
  • Long-term disability
  • Life insurance
  • Personal wellness support
  • Smart healthcare decision support
  • Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings