Director of Engineering - Financial Services (German Speaker)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Director of Engineering is a hands-on software engineering expert with an agile mindset who is accountable for high-quality delivery of the software 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 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’s 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 Engineering, you will relish the role of technical expert across software development and DevOps, bringing high engineering standards, leadership, and motivational skills.

Qualifications

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 various data solutions (like OLAPs, OLTP, graph, no-SQL, etc.) and their 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 – Experience shaping and delivering solutions for Financial Services Sector clients (e.g., Retail/Commercial Banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Insurance).
• People Management – Proven experience leading distributed teams of 30+ engineers, responsible for their growth, learning, and mentorship.
• Consulting experience and communication skills – Skilled in managing senior stakeholders and building client advocates. Experienced in running workshops collaboratively to achieve outcomes.
• Agile Delivery experience – Hands-on experience managing agile ceremonies and practices across SDLC.
• Working with unknowns – Ability to navigate uncertainty, structure work, and lead solutioning at different RFP stages.
• Delivering Business Outcomes – Experience delivering end-to-end client outcomes from ideation to value realization.
• Fluency in German and English is essential.

Set yourself apart with

• Experience contributing technology and engineering thought leadership in the Financial Services Sector.

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