The Director of Technology is a software engineering expert with an agile mindset who is accountable for high-quality delivery of software and enterprise technology solutions across all phases of the SDLC. They possess deep understanding and experience of driving enterprise-level modern architecture, robust software engineering practices and cloud adoption. They also collaborate with senior clients (up to C-suite) across technology and business domains and wider Publicis Sapient delivery and consulting teams to achieve business outcomes.

Your Impact:

• Understand financial services clients’ business outcomes and help define future/evolutionary architecture (e.g. distributed enterprise-scale cloud-native solutions & products), transition states, technology choices and operating model
• Help to drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation to enable accelerated growth initiatives and best-in-class customer experiences
• Rearchitect client monoliths into highly robust, scalable microservices-based digital platforms
• Contribute towards Publicis Sapient best in class engineering practices & initiatives, mentor and inspire a diverse and highly motivated engineering talent
• Represent Publicis Sapient in industry forums and platforms

As Director of Technology, you will relish the role of a technical leader and expert across software development and DevOps, bringing with you high engineering standards, leadership and motivational skills.

Technology

• Extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture
• Experience in leading large-scale, complex, and distributed applications development of Cloud-native solutions (at least one of AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices, Domain-driven design, SOLID, DRY, SoC, etc
• Software development background of large-scale distributed systems with exposure to multiple languages (e.g. Java, C#, Go, Scala, Python etc)
• Experience in API styles such as Async API, REST, SOAP, GraphQl, gRPC. Understanding of the various data solutions (like OLAPs, OLTP, graph, no-SQL etc.) and respective applications
• Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Node.js etc
• Knowledge of containers and building container-based platforms using Docker, GKE, AKS etc
• DevOps/automation experience (CI, CD, Observability, Aggregated Logging & Engineering Metrics)
• Exposure to frontend technology frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc

Business & Consulting

• Financial Services – You will have experience shaping and delivering solutions for Financial Services Sector clients, demonstrating strong knowledge of broader financial sector (e.g. Retail/Commercial Banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Insurance)
• DBT - You will have proven experience delivering Digital Business Transformation for Financial Services sector clients underpinned by modern technology and methodology
• People Management – You will have proven experience of leading distributed teams of 30+ engineers and be responsible for their growth, learning and mentorship
• Consulting experience and Communication skills – You will be experienced in managing senior stakeholders (up to the C-suite) on the client side and responsible for building client advocates. You will also be experienced in running workshops with clients in a collaborative manner and achieving outcomes
• Agile Delivery experience – You will be experienced in agile-based delivery across the entire SDLC and have good hands-on experience in managing the agile ceremonies and practices
• Working with unknowns – You’ll have the ability to navigate the unknown and lead from the front in helping structure work and drive solution options and estimations at different RFP stages
• Delivering Business Outcomes – You will be experienced in delivering end-to-end outcomes for clients starting from ideation to value realisation
• Fluency in German and English is essential

Set yourself apart with

• Experience contributing technology and engineering thought leadership across the Financial Services Sector
• An established senior/executive network within the DACH Financial Services Sector technology or business segments will be advantageous

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value