Director of Technology - Financial Services (German Speaker)

Company description

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.

Overview

The Director of Technology is a software engineering expert with an agile mindset 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.

Your Impact

• Understand financial services clients’ business outcomes and help define future/evolutionary architecture, transition states, technology choices and operating model
• Deliver new digital solutions and efficiencies across the broader German Financial services sector (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.

Qualifications

Business & Consulting

• You will have extensive experience shaping and delivering solutions for German Financial Services Sector clients/companies (e.g. Private Banks, Public Banks, Cooperative Banks, Investment Sector)
• You will possess strong knowledge of Core banking concepts and systems (e.g. payment systems and flows, bespoke platforms and/or 3rd party systems, risk management)
• You will have experience delivering Digital Business Transformation for Financial Services sector clients underpinned by modern technology and methodology
• Consulting experience and Communication skills – 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
• Thought Leadership & Commercial Readiness – You will bring a clear PoV on the topics that matter the most across the DACH FS sector and a strategy of how to convert ideas into revenue
• Agile Delivery experience – 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
• Working with unknowns – 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
• Delivering Business Outcomes – You will be experienced in delivering end-to-end outcomes for clients starting from ideation to value realisation
• Fluency in German and English is essential

Technology

• Extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture
• Experience in leading complex distributed applications development that leverages Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices, Domain-driven design, SOLID, DRY, SoC, etc
• Software development background of large-scale distributed systems with exposure to multiple languages (e.g. Java, Go, Scala, Python etc)
• Experience in API styles and understanding of the various data solutions and respective applications
• Experience with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Node.js etc
• Knowledge of containers and building container-based platforms using Docker, GKE, AKS etc
• DevOps/automation and Quality Engineering experience

Set yourself apart with

• An established client network within the German Financial Services Sector technology or business segment will be very useful