Director of Technology - Financial Services

A Director of Technology at Publicis Sapient is a software engineering expert 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 create, shape and achieve business outcomes.

This Director of Technology role exclusively supports our Germany Financial Services business which is our most rapidly growing business across the DACH region. 

Your Impact

• Define future/evolutionary architecture, transition states, technology choices and operating model for financial services clients
• Deliver new digital solutions and efficiencies across the broader German Financial services sector (e.g. public, private, cooperative and investment banking)
• Help to drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation to enable accelerated growth initiatives and best-in-class customer experiences
• Be part of the DACH Financial Services Leadership team and directly contribute towards regional business growth by bringing new ideas and go to market strategies to unlock new revenue opportunities
• 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, bringing with you high engineering standards, leadership and motivational skills. 

Your Business & Consulting skills

• You will possess strong knowledge of at least one segment of the German Financial Services Sector (e.g. Core Banking, payment systems and flows, risk management)
• You will have experience delivering Digital Business Transformation clients underpinned by modern technology and methodology
• 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
• You will bring a clear PoV on the topics that matter the most across the DACH FS sector 
• 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
• 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
• You will be experienced in delivering end-to-end outcomes for clients starting from ideation to value realisation
• You are Fluent in German (C1 or Native) and English

Your Technology & Engineering skills

• You have extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture and leading complex distributed applications development that leverages Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
• You possess strong knowledge and understanding of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices & Domain-driven design
• You bring extensive software development experience of large-scale distributed systems, having been exposed to multiple languages (e.g. Java, Go, Scala, Python) and frameworks such as Spring Boot, Node.js etc
• You have broad knowledge of API styles and understanding of the various data solutions and respective applications 
• You have knowledge of containers and building container-based platforms using Docker, GKE, AKS etc
• You have likely experimented with different AI tools/frameworks for enterprise scale software development

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.