About the Role
Lead high-quality delivery of software and enterprise technology solutions across the SDLC. Drive enterprise-level modern architecture, robust software engineering practices, and cloud adoption. Collaborate with senior clients and internal teams to achieve business outcomes. This role supports the rapidly growing Financial Services business across the DACH region as a Technology & Engineering SME.
Responsibilities
- Define future architecture, technology choices, and operating models for financial services clients.
- Deliver new digital solutions and efficiencies within the German Banking Sector.
- Drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation and AI adoption for growth and customer experience.
- Contribute to regional business growth by developing new ideas and go-to-market strategies.
- Contribute to engineering practices and initiatives, mentor and inspire engineering talent.
- Represent the company in DACH technology industry forums.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of at least one segment of the German Banking Sector (e.g., Core Banking, Payment Systems, Regulatory Frameworks, Risk Management).
- Experience influencing senior client stakeholders (up to C-suite) and building client advocates.
- Mature point of view on DACH Financial Services sector topics and a strategy for revenue conversion.
- Experience delivering Digital Business Transformation for Financial Services clients using modern technology and methodology.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, structure work, and drive solution options and estimations during RFPs.
- Experience delivering end-to-end client outcomes from ideation to value realization.
- Fluent in German (Native or C1) and English.
- Extensive experience defining end-to-end enterprise architecture and leading complex distributed applications development on Cloud platforms.
- Strong knowledge of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices, and Domain-driven design.
- Strong understanding of data architecture concepts, including transactional consistency, data modeling, and modern data platform trade-offs.
- Extensive software development leadership experience for large-scale distributed systems with hands-on development background.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing Agentic AI systems using specified frameworks and understanding of AI concepts.
- Broad knowledge of API styles and various data solutions.
- Strong knowledge of containers and building container-based platforms.
Skills
- Software engineering
- Enterprise architecture
- Cloud adoption
- Event-driven Architecture
- Microservices
- Domain-driven design
- Data architecture
- Transactional consistency
- Data modelling
- Distributed systems
- Java
- Go
- Scala
- Python
- Agentic AI systems
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- HuggingFace
- LlamaIndex
- AutoGen
- CrewAI
- Reasoning (AI)
- Planning (AI)
- Tool invocation (AI)
- API styles
- Data solutions
- Containers
- Docker
- GKE
- AKS
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- OCI
- German Banking Sector knowledge
- Core Banking
- Payment Systems and Flows
- Regulatory Frameworks
- Risk Management
- Client stakeholder influence
- Client advocacy
- Digital Business Transformation
- Solution structuring
- Solution options and estimations (RFP stages)
- End-to-end outcome delivery (ideation to value realization)
- German (Native or C1)
- English
- Professional network (Frankfurt banking and financial services ecosystem)
Location
- DACH region
- German Banking Sector
- Frankfurt banking and financial services ecosystem
Experience Level
- Director of Technology
- Extensive experience
About the Company
- Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner.
- Helps established organizations achieve a digitally-enabled future.
- Unlocks value through a start-up mindset and modern methods.
- Fuses strategy, consulting, customer experience with agile engineering and creativity.
- Has 20,000+ people in 53 offices globally.
- Combines experience in technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession.
- Accelerates client businesses by designing valued products and services.
