Director, Data Engineering

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

Publicis Sapient has an outstanding opportunity for a senior data leader to join our UK business and assume a key role within the Data Engineering capability. This role will see the successful individual lead the charge in enterprise scale data engineering transformation programmes for our global clients. In addition, they will help to grow and shape data practice at Publicis Sapient into a world-class capability.

Responsibilities

Your Impact

• Deliver state-of-the-art data solutions for a range of financial services clients across the retail, commercial, investment and challenger bank sectors.
• Lead PS transformation in superior engineering approach towards data
• Help to develop state-of-the-art solutions that unlock the value of clients’ data for their organization together with AI, machine learning and analytics teams
• Bring tried and tested consulting skills honed in client facing roles
• Engage with business and technology stakeholders all the way to C-Level, appropriately increasing/decreasing the level of detail for your audience
• Provide and develop data thought leadership across PS

The role requires a hands-on technologist with expertise in Big Data, Cloud, Batch and Streaming based data solutions, providing strategic and tactical direction to teams and guide customers in their digital transformation journeys. The individual should have a strong programming background in technologies like Java/Scala/Python along with Spark and other related computing frameworks.

As a data engineering practitioner, you will also have a strong point of view on and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, business intelligence and reporting & analytics. Ideally, you will also have experience in integrating data with marketing scenarios like segmentation, targeting, consumer 360 view etc.

Qualifications

Your skills and experience

• Extensive experience in Data technologies across streaming and batch-oriented realms and cutting across data acquisition, storage, processing, consumption patterns in operational and analytical domains, and expertise in cloud-related data services (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• End to end data architecture skills including Analytics, ML and Activation tools in overall Data-driven Digital Business Transformation (DBT)
• Leading Technical Architecture, Design and Delivery of Big Data and Cloud Data solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) for multiple projects
• Expertise in distributed data processing frameworks like Spark, Storm, Flink across batch and streaming realms, programming languages preferably in Java/Scala and/or Python as a secondary language and distributed messaging/streaming frameworks like Kafka, Pulsar, Google Pub/Sub, Azure EventHub, AWS Kinesis
• Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra/HBase/MongoDB/ElasticSearch/Neo4j) and scalable analytical data stores like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Teradata
• Knowledge of scalable data models that address a wide variety of consumption patterns including random-access, sequential access including necessary optimizations like bucketing, aggregating, sharding
• Experience in Performance tuning, optimization and scaling solutions from a storage/processing standpoint
• Experience with setting up data engineering practices across architecture, design, coding and quality assurance and deployment of such through industry-standard DevOps practices for CI/CD and leveraging tools like Jenkins/Bamboo, Maven, Junit, SonarQube, Terraform (one-click infrastructure setup), Kubernetes, containerization
• Solid understanding of Data Governance, Data Security, Data Cataloguing and Data Lineage concepts (any tools experience in these areas like Collibra is preferred)
• Leading data audits/assessment, defining data strategy and provide consulting skills to the clients
• Leading proposals (RFPs) from solution, architecture, estimation and framework standpoint
• Thought leadership in Data Engineering e.g. writing blogs, creating PoV’s, possess knowledge of industry trends, attending/presenting in internal/external technical forums, mentorship etc
• Excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills
• Leading / participating in Data CoE initiatives e.g. building accelerators, driving mindshare through blogs, point of views, industry participation, coaching/mentoring team members, and keeping abreast through continuous learning

Additional Information

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

Publicis Sapient fosters an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups, to learn more please visit https://careers.publicissapient.com/life-at-ps/diversity-inclusion

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