Director of Technology - Travel & Hospitality

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. 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.

Job Description

Are you ready to revolutionize the way the world travels? Are you a tech-savvy visionary who thrives on pushing the boundaries of what's possible? If so, we have an extraordinary opportunity for you to make your mark on the Travel and Hospitality industry as our Director of Technology.  You will collaborate with our incredibly talented team to deliver impactful and innovative solutions for our clients.  

Together, let's rewrite the script of travel and shape a future that is nothing short of extraordinary. 

Your Impact: 

• Build relationships with key decision makers and influencers within current clients as well as new clients in partnership with our industry vertical and marketing teams 
• You will apply your consultative skills to truly help guide the client through all DBT conversations and solutions. 
• Shape opportunities and create execution approaches throughout the lifecycle of client engagements. 
• Understand how the other capability and practice teams at Publicis Sapient interact and how to best work together to expand business and technology partnerships 
• Deeply understand the challenges that our clients face and 
• Apply your expertise in the travel and hospitality space  
• Hotel Operations 
• Reservations and POS systems 
• Loyalty 
• Apply your in-depth knowledge of multiple programming languages, architectural patterns, frameworks, and tooling to create elegant solutions to problems 
• Adopt new software languages and paradigms, distributed programming models and shape the wider application landscape to address client challenges, while effectively articulating rationale for those choices 
• Work effectively with product stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into system requirements and software modules 
• Apply data solutions across multiple business use case and problems 
• Drive growth for the Engineering capability through thought-leadership and client advisory 
• Lead by example in the design and development of high-quality, hygienic, and manageable code, maximizing the cloud’s elastic scale, and shift-left practices of code quality checks, observability, performance, and security and foster a robust peer review culture within your engineering teams 
• Ingrain DevOps practices of building infrastructure as code, continuous integration through deployment automation, BDD & TDD of features and functionality through code within your engineering teams 
• Identify root causes of problems in software as well as in your organizational machine through debugging, discovery, and proactive remediation of potential problems 
• Manage the engineering teams' quality of delivery, mentor the technical team, manage technical risk, and face-off against client IT leadership in defining the solution roadmap and converting business capabilities into digital reality 
• Ensuring all deliverables are of high quality by setting development standards, adhering to the standards, and participating in code reviews 
• Drive improvements to the engineering maturity of your organization to improve speed, quality, and value of software products 
• Bring in agility that enables your engineering teams to balance between rapid delivery of MVPs to prove value of a business idea to subsequently building robust and resilient software that’s built to last 
• Foster a generative culture of growth through governance practices that encourage sharing of knowledge, mentorship and development, training and certification, and continuous self-development of engineers in your teams 
• Build and grow the Engineering team to develop top talent, ensure delivery success, and help strengthen branding for both hiring and selling 

Qualifications

Your Skills and Qualifications 

• Several years of enterprise customer, technology delivery, consulting, advisory or equivalent experience 

• Extensive experience within the Travel and Hospitality space 

• Very high EQ, able to work the room, build strong