Java Performance Architect – Remote FS450

At Fresche Solutions we offer a great work-life balance with flexible hours. You can work remotely from anywhere in North America or from one of our officesthe decision is yours.

Why Join Fresche We believe in leading our industry through innovation delivering exceptional outcomes and helping our customers achieve lasting success. Our goal is to ensure that 100% of our customers are referenceable. Our distinct company culture has made Fresche a top employer and a trusted partner to our customers for eleven consecutive years. We work hard to ensure that our values are reflected in everything we dofrom setting priorities and developing ideas to delivering solutions and supporting our clients.

About the Role

As a Java Performance Architect you will play a pivotal role in diagnosing designing and optimizing complex enterprise Java environments.

This position has a particular focus on Java application and system performance optimization. We are looking for someone with deep expertise in JVM behaviour and enterprise application performance who can identify bottlenecks across the application middleware database operating-system and infrastructure layers.

You will investigate complex production performance issues identify root causes and architect practical solutions that improve application responsiveness transaction throughput scalability resource utilization reliability and overall system efficiency.

You will also work directly with clients and internal teams to lead technical discovery communicate findings recommend architectural improvements and support implementation through completion.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex Java performance issues across the full technology stack including application code JVM middleware databases operating systems infrastructure and external dependencies.
• Analyze JVM and application behaviour including memory utilization garbage collection threading concurrency CPU usage connection management application-server configuration latency and throughput.
• Use profiling observability thread dumps heap dumps database analysis and other diagnostic techniques to identify root causes and recommend improvements to scalability stability and resource utilization.
• Evaluate application architecture and design scalable maintainable and high-performing Java solutions across traditional distributed cloud and modernized environments.
• Lead technical discovery sessions architecture workshops performance assessments and solution-design discussions with clients and internal teams.
• Produce and present technical findings architecture recommendations root-cause analyses remediation plans and implementation roadmaps while serving as a senior technical escalation point throughout delivery.
  

What You Must Have

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience designing developing troubleshooting and architecting complex enterprise applications with demonstrated experience in a senior architecture principal engineering or technical leadership role.
• Deep hands-on experience with Java and JVM performance optimization including memory management garbage collection threading concurrency heap/thread analysis JVM tuning profiling latency and throughput.
• Experience with enterprise Java frameworks and application servers such as Spring/Spring Boot WebSphere WebLogic JBoss/WildFly Tomcat Open Liberty or comparable technologies.
• Strong experience diagnosing production performance issues across multiple layers including application code JVM middleware database operating system infrastructure and network dependencies.
• Experience with application performance monitoring observability and diagnostic tools such as Dynatrace AppDynamics New Relic Datadog Splunk Java Flight Recorder Java Mission Control VisualVM or comparable tools.
• Strong understanding of database performance scalability capacity planning resource utilization and application-to-database interactions.
• Strong client-facing communication technical documentation presentation problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting high-volume low-latency transaction-intensive or mission-critical Java applications.
• Experience with distributed systems microservices APIs cloud platforms Docker Kubernetes or hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Experience with performance and load-testing tools such as JMeter Gatling LoadRunner or comparable technologies.
• Experience with enterprise databases such as DB2 Oracle PostgreSQL SQL Server or similar platforms.
• Experience with application modernization platform transformation DevOps SRE or production-support environments.
• Experience working in consulting professional services or client-facing delivery environments.

Employment Details

This opportunity is primarily intended as a permanent full-time position. We would also consider a highly experienced consultant for an initial 12-month contract engagement.

Equal Opportunity Employer We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability or any other protected characteristic.

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