Sr 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 clients and partners, guide them through conversations and solutions, and expand business and technology partnerships.
• Understand clients' challenges and apply expertise in the travel and hospitality space, including hotel operations, reservations, and loyalty systems.
• Utilize knowledge of programming languages, architectural patterns, and tooling to create solutions.
• Adopt new software languages and paradigms, and articulate rationale for choices made.
• Work closely with product stakeholders to translate needs into system requirements and software modules.
• Drive Engineering capability growth through thought leadership and client advisory, ensuring high-quality design and development.
• Implement DevOps practices, identify software problems and their root causes, manage the engineering teams' quality of delivery.
• Maintain high-quality deliverables by setting and adhering to development standards and code reviews.
• Improve the engineering maturity of the organization, prioritizing speed, quality, and value of software products.
• Foster a growth culture, develop top talent, ensure delivery success, and strengthen branding for both hiring and selling.

Qualifications

Your Skills and Qualifications 

• Several years of enterprise customer technology delivery, consulting, or advisory experience, preferably in the Travel and Hospitality Enterprise space.
• Proficiency in various Hospitality Software such as Opera, Agilisys, Lightspeed, ACF, and strong people management experience.
• Fluency with cloud native services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and extensive skills in software engineering in distributed computing, with at least one professional level cloud certification.
• Experience across all application stack layers with knowledge of a programming language at each layer; Front end (Javascript/Swift/Java), Middleware (Java, C#), Data Engineering (Java, SQL), DevOps (Terraform, Java, Python).
• Deep understanding of data architectures, machine learning concepts, and experience with data pipelines and entity resolution systems, preferably in the cloud.
• Strong background in application development using service-oriented architecture and 12-factor methodology, understanding of Enterprise applications, and expertise in systems integration, custom development, and package implementation.
• Proven engineering leadership in delivering complex solution designs, managing large programs, leading a technical team of 20+ software engineers, and obtaining approval from enterprise architecture stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational, time management, presentation, and communication skills with the ability to lead teams, influence others, gain consensus, and rapidly understand client’s digital ecosystem to produce a future data landscape vision and strategy.

Additional Information

• 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

Career Level:  Director - Sr Director

Additional Information 

Base Salary Range for the Role:  180,000-250,000 (varies depending on experience) 

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 spec