Senior Director of Engineering � Consumer Products & Retail

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineering leader who is looking for significant professional growth at an organisation with an award-winning culture for creativity, client impact and openness. Your role will carry a core focus on defining and delivering architectural solutions, structuring technology and engineering teams and managing large-scale technical delivery. You will also be responsible for thought leadership, driving the adoption of modern architecture and technology trends such as headless, microservices, cloud, DevOps and innovative engineering transformation at scale.  Along with driving best fit solutions for our clients, you will also work closely with business development leads, client partners and programme delivery managers to realise new business opportunities and help grow client accounts.

Your Skills and Experience:

• A strong track record in consulting organisations with proven experience of interfacing with and advising at exec board or senior leadership level - CTO, CIO
• Experience in defining technology strategies for clients, with a focus on modern architectures (layered, headless, micro-services based, Big Data platforms.  cloud-hosted)
• Technical management and delivery experience of globally distributed engineering teams of up to 100 people or more
• Strong presentation, client pitching skills and Agile Delivery experience
• Understanding of key Retail / Consumer Products business areas such as:
  • Online selling (web shop, mobile app, online payments, etc.)
  • Direct-to-Consumer & Marketplaces
  • Merchandising
  • Omnichannel logistics (home delivery, click & collect, returns, etc.)
  • In-store (POS systems, clientelling, etc.)
• A proven track record of delivering enterprise scale engineering transformation projects using contemporary technologies and methodologies such as:

• • Digital Customer Experience platforms
  • E-Commerce platforms
  • CMS, Search, PIM, DAM, OMS
  • Data technologies across streaming and batch-oriented realms
  • Analytics, ML and Activation tools 
  • Java, JavaScript and CSS, Typescript for large scale website development
  • DevSecOps/Automation (CI/CD) for large scale delivery
  • Architecture and design knowledge of Headless approaches, API gateways, Microservices, iPaaS / ETL, Databases, and Big Data platforms
  • Cloud platform architectures (Azure, GCP, AWS)
  • Salesforce technology such as Commerce Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Mulesoft, Heroku, etc.
  • Quality Engineering

Set yourself apart with:

• Understanding of key Consumer Products business areas such as:
  • Product Lifecycle management
  • Online marketing and selling (B2B, B2C)
  • Content and digital asset management
  • Supply chain (Order Management, B2B logistics, D2C logistics, returns, etc.)

You will also showcase a robust history of achieving business outcomes and driving growth, propelled by personal initiative, a capacity to work efficiently, a collaborative mindset, and a proactive commitment to taking ownership of business results.

Benefits Of Working Here

• Hybrid working model and flexible working hours.
• Strong people first company culture
• Numerous learning opportunities to support your professional growth
• Amazing opportunities for career progression
• Staff incentives and rewards schemes
• Company pension plan and occupational disability insurance
• Discounts on travel, culture, and leisure activities
• “Work Your World Program” – every Publicis Sapient employee is entitled to work anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks every year

Publicis Sapient fosters an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups, to learn more please visit https://careers.publicissapient.com/life-at-ps/diversity-inclusion

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.