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Director Data Engineering

  • Job ID: 2026-138887
  • Wacker Drive - 35 West Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601 United States
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Job Description

Director Data Engineering - TMT

 

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Director, Data Engineering to lead top-notch technologists to enable real business outcomes for our enterprise Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) clients. You will create impact for some of the world’s biggest brands, by translating their needs into transformative solutions that provide valuable insight. Working with the latest data technologies in the TMT industry, you will be instrumental in helping our clients evolve for a more digital future. 
Successful candidates will have TMT specific Data Engineering expertise coupled with a proven track record of creating, steering and closing new business opportunities. 

 

 

Qualifications

 

Your Skills & Experience: 

  • Exceptional data engineering skills with distributed computing background and proven experience in delivering large scale data platforms
  • Create new pursuits in one or multiple target TMT accounts and bring forward clear and compelling client propositions.

  • Strive to provide continual value-add to clients through Industry expertise, domain expertise, or sales leadership and eminence.
    • Data processing programming using SQL, DBT, Python, and similar tools
    • Logical programming in Python, Spark, PySpark, Java, Javascript, and/or Scala
    • Data ingest, validation, and enrichment pipeline design and implementation
    • Cloud-native data platform design with a focus on streaming and event-driven architectures
    • Data modeling, querying, and optimization for relational, NoSQL, timeseries, and graph databases and data warehouses and data lakes
    • Hands-on technologist with deep expertise in big data ecosystem for data integration, data storage, compute framework, analytics, and advanced visualization (i.e., ETL Tools, Streaming Tools, No-SQL data bases, Spark, Reporting Tools, AI/ML Platforms)
    • Hands-on experience across leading public cloud data platforms (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake)
    • Expertise in data governance within the TMT industry (HIPPA, FHIR,) for big data space with knowledge of various MDM/entity resolution solutions
    • Ability to lead teams that rapidly learn the client’s current digital ecosystem and produce a future data landscape vision and strategy considering the transformation agenda and business goals
    • Have a point of view and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, commercial models, business intelligence, reporting, and analytics
    • Excellent client communication and facilitating skills, ability to influence others and gain consensus, and team collaboration
    • Combination of proficient consulting, business, strategy, technical and people skills
    • Test programming using automated testing frameworks, data validation and quality frameworks, and data lineage framework

Additional Information

Pay Range: $168,000 to $252,000

 

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. Benefits of working here: Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued 16 paid holidays throughout the year. Generous parental leave and new parent transition program Tuition reimbursement Corporate gift matching program

 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicis.sapient.com

 

 

 

Company Description

Publicis Sapient (“PS”) is a leader in digital transformation space, helping the best brands in the world get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. Fueled by a recognized heritage in large-scale IT and engineering, we combine market leading capabilities in strategy, technology & engineering, platforming, experience design and more. We deliver idea through execution across the ten business sectors in which we operate.

 

As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession is amplified by our parent company, Publicis Groupe, the world’s largest multi-national communications and marketing organization. Our culture is one of curiosity and relentlessness, and we embrace diversity and reward imagination. We seek achievers, leaders and visionaries, and our team looks to each person to bring skills and passion to help our clients solve their biggest business challenges.

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