Manager, Performance Engineer - Tax Transformation

If you are a technology leader with a passion for improving application reliability, scalability, and user experience through performance engineering, consider joining Deloitte Consulting’s AI & Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the design and delivery of performance engineering solutions that support complex technology transformations and help clients achieve measurable business outcomes.

Work you’ll do

As a Deloitte Tax Manager, Performance Engineering, you will lead the planning, design, execution, and delivery of performance testing and engineering activities across complex technology programs. You will provide technical leadership to delivery teams, collaborate with clients and stakeholders, identify application bottlenecks, and recommend improvements that enhance performance, stability, scalability, and resiliency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the analysis of nonfunctional requirements and translate them into performance engineering strategies, workload models, test scenarios, scripts, and traceability documentation.
• Plan and coordinate performance testing activities across the software development lifecycle.
• Design, develop, and maintain performance test scripts using tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, or NeoLoad.
• Lead the execution of load, stress, endurance, scalability, and volume testing.
• Analyze test results using monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Identify application bottlenecks, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend performance improvements.
• Collaborate with client, onshore, and offshore teams to manage dependencies, resolve issues, and escalate delivery risks.
• Prepare performance test strategies, execution plans, dashboards, reports, and executive-level presentations.
• Ensure that performance engineering deliverables meet agreed scope, quality, timeline, and methodology standards.
• Guide and mentor performance engineers and review test scripts, execution results, and technical documentation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of performance engineering methods, accelerators, reusable assets, and delivery practices.
• Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders and communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships 
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor 
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The team

Deloitte Tax LLP's Tax Transformation Office (TTO) is responsible for the design, development, and deployment of innovative, enterprise technology, tools, and standard processes to support the delivery of tax services. The TTO team focuses on enhancing Deloitte Tax LLP’s ability to deliver comprehensive, value-added, and efficient tax services to our clients. It is a dynamic team with professionals of varying backgrounds from tax technical, technology development, change management, Six Sigma, and project management. The team consults and executes a wide range of initiatives involving process and tool development and implementation including training development, engagement management, tool design, and implementation.

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2 – 3 days per week
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in performance testing, performance engineering, or related technology delivery roles with additional experience leading performance engineering teams or technical delivery workstreams.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, design, and execute performance testing, including workload modeling, capacity planning, scenario development, test-environment coordination, and performance test scripting.
• Proven ability to analyze performance results, identify application, database, infrastructure, and integration bottlenecks, and communicate recommendations through technical reports and stakeholder presentations.
• Ability to travel up to 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• One of the following active accreditations obtained:
• Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA
• If not CPA eligible:
• Licensed attorney
• Enrolled Agent
• ISTQB Certified Tester
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Microsoft Certified:  Azure Solutions Architect or Azure DevOps Engineer
• SAFe DevOps Practioner
• ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE)

Preferred:

• Demonstrated proficiency with LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, or comparable tools, including reusable frameworks and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with performance engineering for cloud-native, microservices, API, distributed, or event-driven architectures across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience using Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, Splunk, or comparable platforms for application, infrastructure, and database performance analysis.
• Experience provisioning test data and environments, maintaining requirements traceability, and managing performance-related defects and dependencies.
• Proven analytical, problem-solving, communication, and mentoring skills, including presenting technical findings to executives; relevant cloud, Agile, performance-testing, quality, or project-management certifications preferred.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.