Director Engineering

Roles and responsibilities

The Engineering Lead will lead shaping, consulting and delivery of our transformation technology programmes across a varied set of Industries (Travel & Hospitality , Government Sector primarily). This role is responsible for framing geographically distributed technology groups internally and the technical management of on-site project teams. This individual will

• Guide architecture, technical design & development while providing best practice points of view within their area of expertise and be an authority for the latest engineering methods and processes.
• Lead business development and proposal work, developing client relationships at all levels and deliver compelling presentations to C-level internal and client stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and technical direction for multidisciplinary, international teams and play a key role in driving Publicis Sapient core organisational beliefs.
  

Job Description

Your Impact

• Single threaded ownership of KSA clients’ engineering outcomes
• Partner with industry leading clients to solve their business problems through digital solutions

• Partner with Publicis Sapient Industry Leadership to develop go to market strategy and appropriate accelerators for Industries
• Help to drive KSA business growth through taking Publicis Sapient wide propositions to the KSA clients
• Play an active role in developing engineering leaders craft by helping them hone their skills and apply them in the context of client programmes and projects
• Be accountable for people growth in engineering e.g. merit/promotion decisions & engineering transformation both internally and with the clients
  • Take accountability for engineering delivery (estimates & execution), solution choice, quality and consistency (within the industry and aligned to Publicis Sapient global engineering capabilities)
  • Help to build KSA engineering capability including liaising with different CoEs like Cloud & Data to define/review and partner for role expectations, hiring & training
• Build out engineering capacity required for revenue and partner with the Engineering office and other functions
• Provide leadership support to client account engineering leads

Desired candidate profile

Qualifications

Your Skills and Experience

Core Skills & Experience

• Seasoned technology leader with a strong background in engineering and consulting roles
• Hands on technical delivery and leadership experience of globally distributed engineering teams of 100+ in size
• AI, Cloud Native Architectures for Digital Applications and Modern, scalable data implementations
• Track record of operating at exec board or senior leadership level – e.g. CTO, CIO
• Excellent client pitching and presentation skills
• Agile delivery experience
• Strong academic background in a relevant discipline
  

Industry and Engineering Skills & Knowledge

• Industry knowledge of key T&H and KSA Government sectors such as Smart Cities, Aviation & Hospitality
• A proven track record of delivering enterprise scale engineering transformation projects using contemporary technologies and methodologies such as:
  • AI and Data Implementations
  • Online booking platforms (Off-the-shelf products and Custom implementations)
  • Digital experience platforms (CMS, Search etc.)
  • Java, JavaScript
  • DevOps/Automation (CI, CD) for large scale delivery
  • Architecture and design knowledge of Headless approaches, API gateways, Microservices, iPaaS / ETL / ESB, Databases, and Big Data platforms
  • Cloud platform architectures (one or more of Azure, GCP, AWS, OCI)
  • Big Data / Machine learning platforms
  • Quality Engineering
• Openness to travel as part of the role.