Senior Analyst, Performance Engineering

Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

Position Overview
Ralph Lauren is seeking a highly motivated, results-driven Performance Analyst to help drive strong data driven analysis and yield for our Mobile Optimization Team. The Performance Analyst will monitor, optimize, and analyze our application integrations to drive optimal performance across our ecommerce platform. The ideal candidate is an analytical thinker and a talented problem solver with a performance-first mentality who can transform performance data into actionable insight and results. S/he will take an investigative approach to proactively analyze front end performance and collaborate closely with our performance engineer and a number of internal, cross-functional teams, including developers, architects, and project managers

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

* Evangelize best practices for building and operating highly reliable systems
* Serve as subject matter expert in observability and monitoring
* Discovering, scoping, and documenting new alerting and performance tracking methodologies to preemptively identify and resolve issues using synthetic and RUM tools
* Anticipating problems based on performance data analyzed from various tools (webpagetest, lighthouse, sitespeed etc), proactively escalate and resolve issues
* Evaluating and presenting Performance overviews to performance engineer
* Assisting Mobile Optimization Team to collect data and craft unique solutions to best serve their goals
* Analyzing trendlines and performance patterns, detecting performance trends and opportunity for optimizations
* Flagging opportunities to add new tools and features for user experience optimization.
* Tracking, analyzing, and updating daily reports
* Monitoring alerts reporting to gauge the health of performance

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

* Ability to transform performance data into actionable insights
* General knowledge of Synthetic performance test tools such as webpagetest, lighthouse, google pagespeed, speedcurve, sitespeed.io.
* General Knowledge of RUM tools such as Mpulse and Data Science Workbench.
* Can articulate performance metrics based on web vitals and RUM data
* Understand cloud computing platforms, such as AWS and GCP
* Experience with API and microservices strategies and solutions.
* Fluency in the mechanics of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, caching
* Ability to demonstrate good understanding of architectural eco system
* Familiarity with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript a plus
* Exceptional communication skills
* Bachelor's or equivalent