SENIOR DIRECTOR DATA ENGINEERING

Publicis Sapient is a digital business transformation company. 

We partner with global organizations to help them create and sustain competitive advantage in a world that is increasingly digital. We operate through our expert SPEED capabilities: Strategy and Consulting, Product, Experience, Engineering and Data, which combined with our culture of curiosity and deep industry knowledge, enables us to deliver meaningful impact to our clients’ businesses through reimagining the products and experiences their customers truly value.

 
Our agile, data-driven approach equips our clients’ businesses for change, making digital the core of how they think and what they do. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe with 20,000 people and over 50 offices worldwide.

We at Publicis Sapient, enable our clients to thrive in Next and to create business value through expert strategies, customer-centric experience design, and world-class product engineering. 

The future of business is disruptive, transformative and becoming digital to the core. 

In our 20+ years in IT, never before have we seen such a dire need for transformation in every major industry - from financial services to automotive, consumer products, retail, energy, and travel. 

To make this transformative journey a reality in these exciting times, we seek thought leaders and rock stars who will : 

• brave it out to go do the next; “what will be” from “what is” 
• exhibit the optimism that says there is no limit to what we can achieve 
• deeply-skilled, bold, collaborative, flexible 
• reimagine the way the world works to help businesses improve the daily lives of people and the world
• our people thrive because of the belief that it is both our privilege and responsibility to usher our clients and the world into Next. 

Our work is fueled by :  

• challenging boundaries
• multidisciplinary collaboration 
• highly agile teams, and 
• the power of the newest technologies and platforms. 

If that’s you, come talk to us! 

This is the world-class engineering team where you should build your career. 

Capability

The Data team gathers 20 people among which Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Strategists who work alongside to build tools that generate value from our client's data.

If you share this vision and wish to contribute to our international community, come join us !

As Director in Data Engineering, you will be responsible for 

• executing Data architecture assessment 
• defining and implementing data transformation strategy for clients
• designing and delivering modern and enterprise grade target architecture for data platform, reaching expectations specially in performance, reliability, security and scalability 
• shaping a cloud native landing zone, supporting modern data architecture patterns (lakehouse, medallion analytics, Data as a service .. ) 
• contributing to the definition and execution of Data Governance models 

The role requires a hands-on technologist with expertise in data platform delivery at scale in large scope of use cases (either AI or analytics), Cloud based as a must and tactical direction to team and customers. The person has solid hands-on capabilities in data related languages as SQL, Python and Scala as well as Spark based computing program and modern storage architecture using market standards as Parquet and Apache Iceberg. 

As a data engineering practitioner, you should have a point of view and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, business intelligence, reporting & analytics, team skills management and development, across software engineering, quality automation and testing, data modeling design as well as cloud and solution architecture 

Role & Responsibilities 

• Provide inputs to define and execute strategic roadmap for enterprise and data architecture by understanding the current landscape as well as setting up the framework for shaping and executing the target architecture and its delivery roadmap. 
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on implementation role in the areas of data techniques including data ingestion, data transformation/processing, data quality, data modeling, data visualization involving end to end life cycle using agile/scrum implementation approach. 
• Act as Technical lead of a globally distributed team and manage functional & non-functional scope, quality and timelines. 
• Help establish standard data practices and frameworks like data governance, data quality, data validation, data security, data privacy, scheduling, monitoring and logging/error management. 
• Should exhibit and demonstrate Thought Leadership point of views and provide business and technical consulting to the clients and mentorship/coaching to the team members. 

Job Description

As Director in Data Engineering, you will be responsible for 

• executing Data architecture assessment 
• defining and implementing data transformation strategy for clients
• designing and delivering modern and enterprise grade target architecture for data platform, reaching expectations specially in performance, reliability, security and scalability 
• shaping a cloud native landing zone, supporting modern data architecture patterns (lakehouse, medallion analytics, Data as a service .. ) 
• contributing to the definition and execution of Data Governance models 

The role requires a hands-on technologist with expertise in data platform delivery at scale in large scope of use cases (either AI or analytics), Cloud based as a must and tactical direction to team and customers. The person has solid hands-on capabilities in data related languages as SQL, Python and Scala as well as Spark based computing program and modern storage architecture using market standards as Parquet and Apache Iceberg. 

As a data engineering practitioner, you should have a point of view and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, business intelligence, reporting & analytics, team skills management and development, across software engineering, quality automation and testing, data modelling design as well as cloud and solution architecture 

Role & Responsibilities 

• Provide inputs to define and execute strategic roadmap for enterprise and data architecture by understanding the current landscape as well as setting up the framework for shaping and executing the target architecture and its delivery roadmap. 
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on implementation role in the areas of data techniques including data ingestion, data transformation/processing, data quality, data modelling, data visualization involving end to end life cycle using agile/scrum implementation approach. 
• Act as technical lead of a globally distributed team and manage functional & non-functional scope, quality and timelines. 
• Help establish standard data practices and frameworks like data governance, data quality, data validation, data security, data privacy, scheduling, monitoring and logging/error management. 
• Should exhibit and demonstrate Thought Leadership point of views and provide business and technical consulting to the clients and mentorship/coaching to the team members. 

Qualifications

Mandatory Experience and Competencies 

• overall, 15 years of IT experience with 8+ years in Data related technologies 
• + 3 years expertise in cloud related data services (AWS / Azure / GCP) 
• have led data audits / assessment, defining data strategy and provide consulting skills to the clients
• have led technical Architecture, Design and Delivery of Data solutions in production, at scale, based on modern solutions and stacks (AWS, Azure, GCP) 
• setup best design patterns, coding practices, code review process, automation and quality guidelines and processes
• expert in data ingestion, distributed data processing (batch and streaming) and programming languages preferably in Java/Scala and/or Python as secondary language
• lead proposals (RFPs) from solution, architecture, estimation and framework standpoint 
• should have experience in NoSQL databases and in which use cases to use which one
• deep understanding of Data Governance, Data Security Data Cataloging and Data Lineage concepts and any tools experience in these areas. 
• good understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) using Cloud based DevOps services or Jenkins/Bamboo, Maven, Junit, SonarQube, Terraform (one-click infrastructure setup) 
• should exhibit thought leadership in the areas i.e. writing blogs, creating PoVs, industry trends, attending/presenting in internal/external technical forums, mentorship etc. 
• excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills 
• lead / participate in Data CoE initiatives e.g. building accelerators, knowledge sharing sessions, coaching/mentoring team members 

Preferred Experience and Knowledge

• Python notebook 
• data pipeline orchestration 
• knowledge of Kafka streaming 
• Parquet storage and Apache Iceberg SQL formating 
• containers, Dockers and Kubernetes Engine 
• distributed Messaging Queues (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) 
• data Security : raw level security, multi ternancy pattern, column based masking, filtering, minimization, anonymization/pseudonymization technics 
• one or more traditional ETL tools experience (Informatica, Talend etc.) 
• search/Indexing Technologies (Solr) 
• knowledge of Machine Learning 
• agile ways of working (Scrum / Kanban) 

Education 

Master’s / Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. 

Why join us

• a growing structure with strong track record and the support of a CAC40 Enterprise which empowers everyone to develop
• a multicultural and international working environment
• Work Your World : a program that enables our employees to work up to 6 weeks abroad after their first year at Sapient
• access to numerous coaching, e-learnings and practical communities
• hybrid and flexible work organisation (part remote / part in office) 
• an individualized career development plan with one people manager and one staffing people partner following each employee
• attractive salary that is constantly revisited to adapt to market trends
• Various social advantages Employee Savings Plan (PEG), Retirement Savings Plan (PERECOL), 1% Housing assistance, vacation bonus, profit-sharing, 18-week maternity leave, special leave, sick-child leave, caregiver leave, salary maintenance in case of illness after one year of seniority, CSE benefits, 10% discount at the Publicis Drugstore, and €6.50 movie tickets at the Publicis Cinemas for you and your guests

Interested ?

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