GVP Retail Engineering Lead

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations 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. As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe.

Job Description

Today, as clients across industries are moving from digitally extending their businesses to placing digital at the core, Publicis Sapient has an unprecedented opportunity to help them succeed.

Reporting into the EVP, Global Head of Engineering, you will lead engineering and delivery of enterprise scale digital transformation technology programs across industry clients, driving disruption from within. You will be responsible for framing geographically distributed technology groups internally and the technical management of on-site project teams. You will also guide architecture, technical design & development while providing best practice points of view within their area of expertise and also be an authority for the latest engineering methods and processes.

The GVP of Engineering will also lead business development and proposal work, developing client relationships at all levels and deliver compelling presentations to C-level internal and client stakeholders. You will provide leadership and technical direction for multidisciplinary, international teams of 1000+ people and play a key role in driving Publicis Sapient core organizational beliefs. You will also be required to act as an Engineering Advisor for our partners/clients interfacing at the C-Suite level / Head of Departments in shaping their engineering roadmaps and technology stack evaluations.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned technologist and have a blend of experience across delivery, business development and the practical application of contemporary technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Single threaded ownership of all the engineering outcomes globally and create strategy that is required
• Partner with the Business Leadership for go to market strategy and appropriate accelerators within the industry
• Help the business grow and take P.S offerings to our partners/clients
• Work with Fortune 500 clients to solve their business problems using digital solutions
• Play an effective role in developing peoples craft and helping them hone their skills and apply them in the context of the project
• Accountable for mentoring and growing high performance teams in engineering
• Driven about making a difference using the latest technologies to create 10X value
• Passionate about engineering transformation both internally and with the client organization
• Take accountability for engineering delivery (estimates & execution), solution choice, quality and consistency (within the industry and aligned to global engineering capability)
• Responsible for building out engineering capacity required for revenue and partner with Engineering office and other functions
• Ability to provide direction to various engineering leads in their portfolio
• Accountable for delivering outcomes with the right efficiency and effort.
• Frequent travel required

Qualifications

• Hands on technical delivery and leadership of globally distributed development teams 500+ in size
• Good understanding of the Retail industry in NA & EU
• Experience with build and roll out of at least one internet scale Retail system like e-commerce, customer data platforms, supply chain and ordering systems etc.
• Excellent Consultative & Presentation skills
• Hands on experience in architecting complex systems.
• Proficient in applied design with latest tech stacks.
• Expert hands-on coding skills with one or more of – Java, Javascript, C# (any additional languages a plus)
• Strong hands-on experience with two or more of Node.js, Non-Blocking Java (Vert.x/Akka/Spring Reactor/Lagom), Spring Boot, .NET Core/.NET Web API
• DevOps/Automation experience in Cloud environments (CI, CD, Aggregated Logging & Metrics)
• Understanding of two or more Database systems like SQL, NoSQL and NewSQL (e.g. MySQL PostgresQL, Cassandra, Mongo, Aurora, Spanner)
• Strong architectural knowledge of MicroServices, and ideally 12 Factor Applications and Event Driven architec