Senior Performance Management Analyst - Fort Washington, PA - 2370808

UnitedHealth Group•Fort Washington, PA

3d•$130,462 - $133,981•Onsite

About The Position

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Performance Management Analyst to join their team. This role involves analyzing complex engineering, scientific, and business data processing problems to architect and implement innovative solutions for enterprise-grade applications, system administration, and network infrastructure challenges. The analyst will provide thought leadership in performance engineering, establish testing frameworks, define best practices, and leverage cutting-edge tools to simulate and optimize large-scale distributed environments. This position will lead cross-functional initiatives to align performance engineering efforts with strategic business goals, design and implement advanced automated performance testing frameworks, and deliver actionable insights through detailed performance reports. The role also includes spearheading root cause analysis, continuous optimization, building CI/CD-integrated performance pipelines, and driving performance monitoring strategy. Collaboration with DevOps, development, and product teams is key to ensuring scalability, availability, and reliability of mission-critical systems. The analyst will own the full software development and performance lifecycle and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

Master's degree in Information Systems Technology, Computer Science, or related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in computer-related occupation.
Three (3) years of experience in Performance Test automation experience with JMeter, Load runner or Gatling.
Three (3) years of experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases including Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.
Three (3) years of experience with Web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP) and debugging tools such as Fiddler or Wireshark.
Three (3) years of experience with Linux-based systems: advanced shell scripting, monitoring utilities (top, iostat, netstat).
Three (3) years of experience with Performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana or Prometheus.
Three (3) years of experience with Cloud-based performance testing and monitoring on Azure, GCP technologies and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Analyze complex engineering, scientific, and business data processing problems to architect and implement innovative solutions for enterprise-grade applications, system administration, and network infrastructure challenges.
Provide thought leadership in performance engineering by establishing testing frameworks, defining best practices, and leveraging cutting-edge tools to simulate and optimize large-scale distributed environments.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to align performance engineering efforts with strategic business goals.
Design and implement advanced automated performance testing frameworks using JMeter, Gatling, or similar tools; develop custom scripts to simulate real-world scenarios at scale.
Deliver actionable insights by analyzing test results and producing detailed reports on system, application, and network performance.
Spearhead root cause analysis and continuous optimization efforts for complex production systems.
Build and maintain robust CI/CD-integrated performance pipelines.
Utilize expertise in Linux, shell scripting, SQL/NoSQL databases, and web protocols to streamline test execution and enhance observability.
Drive performance monitoring strategy using platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, or New Relic.
Collaborate with DevOps, development, and product teams to drive performance-focused architecture and ensure scalability, availability, and reliability of mission-critical systems.
Take ownership of the full software development and performance lifecycle from design to post-deployment analysis.
Mentor junior engineers and advocate for performance engineering best practices across the organization.