Director Technology - Dot Net Web

Company Description

• Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations 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 truly value.

Job Description

Director, Technology, has high-level responsibility for understanding, planning, and leading the delivery of Technology solutions on a Product. This individual should assume the role of the client’s trusted advisor on technology-related topics including technology strategy, trends, and best practices. For both the client and product team, we expect the Director, of Technology to frame the business value from technology initiatives and articulate this value to meet the client’s business goals and objectives.   

 What will be required of you?

• Utilizes domain-driven design principles in creating complex custom software solutions or modifying package solutions. Identifies the limits of the tools being used and recommends. Identifies the design vs. implementation tradeoffs with the tools being used. Translates the impact of design on scalability, performance, etc. into the project. Leads a team of Sapient and client people in business and technical designs of a module. Manages dependencies across other modules
• Translates the client’s business requirements into a component design. Challenges business design and creates alternative business design solutions that take into account available commercial packages
• Sets standards for the team. Mentors/Coaches Associates, Sr. Associates, Managers, and Sr. Managers, Technology on the team.
• Promotes the value of product processes and ensures these processes are consistently applied on the product. Defines and assesses completeness and the correctness of work
• Reviews other’s estimates and points out holes. Assesses how project risks will impact estimates
• Works with the client and delivery teams and takes on a “hands-on” approach to identify and suggest approaches to resolve any technical issues as they arise. Proactively suggests tools and best practices to prevent such issues.
• Communicates difficult scenarios to the client. Facilitates workshops and meetings with the client
• Participates in extending knowledge of their area of specialization within Sapient. Guides a team in using their area of expertise. Reviews implementation models and recommends pros/cons of different approaches.
• Participates in accumulating and disseminating specialty Best Practices. Attends marketing shows and events and can evaluate vendors and influence Sapient’ s technology investment. Applies vendors application programming model and Sapient’ s position on it
• Participates in accumulating and disseminating specialty Best Practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 16+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems integration, package implementation, and/or interactive design, and Architecture experience; 
• Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively manage client accounts and multi-track Sapient teams.
• Team consists of around 100 globally distributed people on multiple tracks of work throughout the development life cycle; 
• Proven mentoring and coaching abilities to ensure effective growth plans of technology members of Sapient teams;
• Ability to understand critical issues and bring appropriate resolution to cross industry, complex issues
• Ability to drive complex estimates that take one or more projects into account and to effectively communicate risks and dependencies to clients.
• Experience in Integration development and Architecture Design

Must Have’s

• Experience in building cloud native architectures in Azure using PaaS products
• Experience with RDBMS/NoSQL Databases.
• Experience on Microservices Architecture/Domain Driven Design.
• Experience with DevOps
• Experience with Kafka and Rabbit MQ
• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS model
• Exposure to Product Management Lifecycle.
• Exposure to Financial services Domain

Location

Gurgaon /Bangalore/Noida

Additional Information

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being