Performance Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in performance architecture, performance engineering, and system optimization.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and distributed system design.
• Expertise in defining and managing non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Experience creating sizing models, capacity planning strategies, and workload forecasting approaches.
• Deep knowledge of application, database, middleware, cloud, and infrastructure performance tuning.
• Proven ability to conduct end-to-end performance assessments and bottleneck analysis.
• Experience with performance testing methodologies and industry-standard monitoring tools.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, working with CTOs, enterprise architects, and senior leadership.
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and large-scale distributed platforms.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and technical decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Define and govern the end-to-end performance strategy for applications, platforms, and enterprise solutions.
• Partner with enterprise architects, CTOs, and program leadership teams to ensure performance is considered throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Establish and validate non-functional requirements (NFRs) for scalability, availability, reliability, and response times.
• Develop sizing models, capacity plans, and workload forecasts to support business growth and operational demands.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve performance bottlenecks across application, database, integration, infrastructure, and cloud layers.
• Provide architecture recommendations to optimize system throughput, resilience, and resource utilization.
• Lead performance assessments during solution design, development, testing, and production readiness reviews.
• Define performance engineering standards, frameworks, tools, and governance processes across delivery teams.
• Drive performance risk management activities and recommend mitigation strategies for critical business systems.
• Mentor engineering and architecture teams on performance engineering best practices and emerging industry trends.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• microservices

More:

We are supporting a client working on behalf of the British postal service and courier company to hire a Performance Architect for a hybrid role with three days onsite in London. This is a 12-month assignment with the likelihood of further extension. The role is focused on embedding performance engineering principles across the full solution lifecycle and influencing enterprise-wide technology decisions to ensure scalable, resilient, and high-performing platforms and applications.

last updated 32 week of 2026