Director of Engineering - Energy & Commodities

This is an excellent opportunity for a consultative engineering leader to join our DACH business and assume a key role within the wider EMEA Publicis Sapient Energy & Commodities (E&C) business. This role will see the successful individual lead engineering transformation on a wide range of enterprise scale data and cloud engineering programmes for our E&C clients, spanning the full value chain.

Your Skills & Experience

Technology

• Extensive experience in leading architecture, design and delivery of modern Data and Cloud Technology solutions
• Experienced in creating large scale architectures, estimating costs, managing dependencies and complexities
• Software development background utilising data technologies and related frameworks and have strong understanding of industry standard DevOps practices for CI/CD and Quality Engineering
• Bring a strong point of view on and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, business intelligence and reporting & analytics in context of the energy & commodities domain

Business & Consulting

• Extensive experience in delivering technology solutions to Energy sector clients, evidenced by a good understanding of key energy upstream and downstream business functions (e.g. Power Generation, Renewables, Transmission, Distribution, R&D, Supply)
• Strong consultative skills with proven experience in interfacing with and advising senior stakeholders up to the C Level, appropriately increasing/decreasing the level of detail for the audience
• Ability to drive creation of proposals from a solution, architecture, estimation and plan standpoint
• Experienced in leading scaled up engineering teams of 30+ individuals and demonstrate excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills

Set yourself apart with

• Fluency in German and English
• Experience of delivering technology solutions that help Energy companies make the transition to renewables
• Thought leadership experience e.g. writing blogs, creating PoV’s, possess knowledge of industry trends, attending/presenting in internal/external technical forums, mentorship    

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.

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.