Director of Engineering – Consumer Products

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.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineering leader who is looking for significant professional growth at an organisation with an award-winning culture for creativity, client impact and openness. Your role will carry a core focus on defining and delivering architectural solutions, structuring technology and engineering teams and managing large-scale technical delivery. You will also be responsible for thought leadership, driving the adoption of modern architecture and technology trends such as headless, microservices, cloud, DevOps and innovative engineering transformation at scale. Along with driving best fit solutions for our clients, you will also work closely with business development leads, client partners and programme delivery managers to realise new business opportunities and help grow client accounts.

Your Impact

You will work closely with senior stakeholders to pitch, design and deliver solutions that will transform our clients' businesses, while also assuming the role of technical delivery lead for large scale geographically distributed engineering teams. Your key strengths will be in leading large-scale technical strategy, design, planning and delivery, driving best practices adoption, and ensuring the growth of teams and talent. You will also pride yourself in contributing thought leadership and in helping to instil a long-term vision for our Consumer Products & Retail technology capabilities at Publicis Sapient.

Your Skills and Experience:

• A strong track record in consulting organisations with proven experience of interfacing with and advising at exec board or senior leadership level - CTO, CIO
• Experience in defining technology strategies for clients, with a focus on modern architectures (layered, headless, micro-services based, Big Data platforms. cloud-hosted)
• Technical management and delivery experience of globally distributed engineering teams of up to 100 people or more
• Strong presentation, client pitching skills and Agile Delivery experience
• Understanding of key Retail / Consumer Products business areas such as:
  • Online selling (web shop, mobile app, online payments, etc.)
  • Direct-to-Consumer & Marketplaces
  • Merchandising
  • Omnichannel logistics (home delivery, click & collect, returns, etc.)
  • In-store (POS systems, clientelling, etc.)
• A proven track record of delivering enterprise scale engineering transformation projects using contemporary technologies and methodologies such as:
  • Digital Customer Experience platforms
  • E-Commerce platforms
  • CMS, Search, PIM, DAM, OMS
  • Data technologies across streaming and batch-oriented realms
  • Analytics, ML and Activation tools
  • Java, JavaScript and CSS, Typescript for large scale website development
  • DevSecOps/Automation (CI/CD) for large scale delivery
  • Architecture and design knowledge of Headless approaches, API gateways, Microservices, iPaaS / ETL, Databases, and Big Data platforms
  • Cloud platform architectures (Azure, GCP, AWS)
  • Salesforce technology such as Commerce Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Mulesoft, Heroku, etc.
  • Quality Engineering

Set yourself apart with:

• Understanding of key Consumer Products business areas such as:
  • Product Lifecycle management
  • Online marketing and selling (B2B, B2C)
  • Content and digital asset management
  • Supply chain (Order Management, B2B logistics, D2C logistics, returns, etc.)

You will also showcase a robust history of achieving business outcomes and driving growth, propelled by personal initiative, a capacity to work efficiently, a collaborative mindset, and a proactive commitment to taking ownership of business results.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

Publicis Sapient UK is a disability confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point on the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing hiringuk@publicissapient.com. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us: hiringuk@publicissapient.com

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