Director of Technology - Financial Services

A Director of Technology is a software engineering expert who leads the high-quality delivery of software and enterprise technology solutions across all phases of the SDLC. They possess deep understanding and experience of driving enterprise-level modern architecture, robust software engineering practices and cloud adoption. They also collaborate with senior clients (up to C-suite) across technology and business domains and wider Publicis Sapient delivery and consulting teams to create, shape and achieve business outcomes. They relish the role of a technical leader, bringing high engineering standards, leadership and motivational skills.

* You will possess strong knowledge of at least one segment of the NA Banking Sector (e.g. Core Banking, Payment Systems and Flows, Regulatory Frameworks, Risk Management) * You will be experienced in influencing very senior client stakeholders (up to the C-suite) and be responsible for building client advocates across all levels * You will bring a mature PoV on the topics that matter the most across the NA FS sector and a strategy of how to convert ideas into revenue     * You will have experience delivering Digital Business Transformation for Financial Services sector clients underpinned by modern technology and methodology * You’ll have the ability to navigate the unknown and lead from the front in helping structure work and drive solution options and estimations at different RFP stages * You will be experienced in delivering end-to-end outcomes for clients starting from ideation to value realization

Your Technology & Engineering skills

* You have extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture and leading complex distributed applications development that leverages Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI) * You possess strong knowledge and understanding of software design/architectural concepts like Event-driven Architecture, Microservices & Domain-driven design * You have a strong understanding of data architecture concepts, including transactional consistency, data modelling, and the trade-offs between different storage and processing paradigms across modern data platforms * You bring extensive software development leadership experience of large-scale distributed systems, supported by a hands on development background with exposure to multiple languages (e.g. Java, Go, Scala, Python) and frameworks * You bring hands-on experience designing and implementing Agentic AI systems leveraging frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, HuggingFace, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or CrewAI, and deep understanding of concepts like reasoning, planning, and tool invocation * You have broad knowledge of API styles and understanding of the various data solutions and respective applications  * You have strong knowledge of containers and building container-based platforms using Docker, GKE, AKS etc