Agile Program Management - Director - Financial Services

Publicis Sapient; Dubai; On-site; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Director of Agile Program Management to lead large, transformation programs across Financial Services, including banking, payments and insurance. You will shape opportunities at the pitch stage, own delivery through execution, and realise value for clients by guiding multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced settings.

The role combines strategic advisory with hands-on program leadership, driving outcomes and commercial success while navigating complex, globally

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale technology and transformation programs.
• Proven strategy-to-execution experience, shaping deals and delivering them end-to-end.
• Strong commercial ownership, experience managing P&L, margin, or program-level revenue outcomes.
• Deep expertise or strong exposure to Financial Services (banking, payments, insurance).
• Experience leading complex, multi-stream Agile programs at scale.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling teams from scratch, not just managing inherited structures.
• Strong client-facing experience at senior / C-suite level, including negotiation and stakeholder management.
• Experience delivering across globally distributed teams and enterprise platforms.
• Strong problem-solving ability with a data-driven and structured approach to delivery.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and proactively manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Shape opportunities at pitch and own delivery through to execution.
• Lead programs across banking, payments, and insurance sectors.
• Bring together multi-disciplinary teams to deliver exceptional work.
• Drive value realization and commercial success for clients.
• Operate in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and proactively manage risk.

Skills

Enterprise-scale delivery

Strategy to execution

P&L management

Financial services domain

Multi-stream Agile programs

Team building

Senior stakeholder management

Global delivery experience

Data-driven delivery

Risk management

Tools

DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Job Description

Director Agile Program Management

As a Director Agile Program Management, you will operate across our Financial Services business, running large and complex transformation programs or delivering across a portfolio of accounts.

You are a strategy to execution leader, responsible for shaping opportunities at pitch and owning delivery through to execution and value realisation. You will execute and refine digital strategy to ensure client outcomes and commercial success, while leading programs across banking, payments, and insurance sectors.

You will bring together multi-disciplinary teams to deliver exceptional work. The role goes beyond managing delivery; you shape it, own it, and drive it, combining strategic advisory with hands-on program leadership.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale technology and transformation programs
• Proven strategy-to-execution experience, both shaping deals and delivering them end-to-end
• Strong commercial ownership, experience managing P&L, margin, or program-level revenue outcomes
• Deep expertise or strong exposure to Financial Services (banking, payments, insurance)
• Experience leading complex, multi-stream Agile programs at scale
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling teams from scratch, not just managing inherited structures
• Strong client-facing experience at senior / C-suite level, including negotiation and stakeholder management
• Experience delivering across globally distributed teams and enterprise platforms
• Strong problem-solving ability with a data-driven and structured approach to delivery
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and proactively manage risk

Additional Information

Set Yourself Apart With

• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF), or PMI-ACP certification.
• Experience in Agile budgeting, Lean Portfolio Management, and value stream optimization.
• Background in digital transformation and enterprise Agile coaching.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile engineering practices.

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 72 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.