Publicis Sapient - Technology Manager/Specialist - Java/Microservices

Sapient (publicissapient); India; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient seeks a Manager/ Specialist in Technology (Java Microservices) to lead architecture and delivery for large-scale client solutions. You will drive DBT opportunities, oversee design, and collaborate across teams with a focus on AI-enabled engineering and strong NFR adherence.

You will mentor engineers, shape engineering practices, and ensure resilient, secure, scalable services built on Java microservices using Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 11-15 years of experience building large-scale, high-availability distributed services.
• Hands-on solution architecture with at least two large projects from ground zero.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture, design, estimation, and planning; collaborate with client to implement solutions.
• Lead in DBT opportunities for Digital Business Transformation (DBT).
• Work on AI-enabled capabilities; promote AI-assisted software engineering.
• Ensure non-functional requirements: security, performance, availability, resiliency, maintainability.
• Coach engineers and drive product engineering culture and growth.

Skills

Java 8+

Microservices

Distributed systems

AI/ML awareness

Security & compliance

Reactive programming

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Boot / Spring Cloud

JProfiler / YourKit / VisualVM

Splunk / ELK / Grafana

Job description

Job Title : Manager / Specialist Technology (Java Microservices)

We at Publicis Sapient, enable our clients to Thrive in Next and to create business value through expert strategies, customer-centric experience design, and world class product engineering. The future of business is disruptive, transformative, and becoming digital to the core.

We seek the Rockstars who are :

• Deeply skilled, bold, collaborative, flexibleReimagine the way the world works to help businesses improve the daily lives of people, and the world

Our work is fueled by :

• Challenging boundariesMultidisciplinary collaborationHighly agile teamsThe power of the newest technologies and platforms

Job Summary :

You are a high-performance engineer expected to work in a product squad and drive solutions for a large-scale client.

As a Manager Tech / Specialist :

• Understands client business domain and drive Digital Business Transformation (DBT) opportunity
• Drive architecture, design, estimation, planning, and collaborate with the client to implement solutions
• Well versed in AI
• Work on NFRs like security, performance, availability, resiliency, reliability, maintainability and advocate relevant trade-offs
• Collaborate with Senior Managers, Product Managers, and Platform Engineers to define the architecture, engineering practices & guidelines
• Coach, mentor, and guide product engineering culture and own people growth

Experience Guidelines and Mandatory skills :

• 11-15 years of experience in building large-scale, high-volume, low latency, high availability and complex distributed services
• A hands-on solution architect who has delivered at least two large-scale projects from ground zero

AI & Intelligent Engineering :

Demonstrate a strong understanding of AI-assisted software engineering and modern AI capabilities, including Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, and intelligent automation. Leverage AI-powered development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment, security, and governance practices.

Evaluate opportunities to incorporate AI-enabled capabilities into products where they deliver measurable business value.

Architecture and Design :

• Ability to identify, showcase potential solutions and recommend best solution based on requirements
• Manage stakeholders to drive key decisions on tools, technologies, user journeys and overall governance
• Experience in object-oriented, SOLID and DRY principles, reactive programming model, Microservices and event driven solutions
• Understands enterprise security, compliance and data security at network and Application layer

Language & frameworks and Database :

• Worked extensively on Java language Java 8 and above, having used concurrency, blocking/non-blocking IO, lambdas, streams, generics and advance libraries
• Having done database modeling, managed transactional scenarios & Isolation levels and experience with NoSQL and SQL based DBs in the past
• Extensively used Springboot/ Spring cloud or similar frameworks to deliver complex scalable solution

Tools :

• Build and Automation tools, Code Quality Plugins, CI/CD Pipelines and Containerization platforms (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Logging and Monitoring solutions like Splunk, ELK, Grafana etc. and implement technical KPIs
• Extensively used application profiling tools like jProfiler, Yourkit, Visual VM etc.

Platforms & Cloud Services :

• Successful delivered solutions using one of the cloud platforms e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure/ PCF
• Integrated with messaging platform e.g. RabbitMQ/ Kafka/ cloud messaging/ enterprise messaging
• Applied distributed caching solutions like Redis, Memcache, etc.

Testing & Performance engineering :

• Memory management, GC, and GC tuning
• Writing JUnit test cases, mocking e.g. Mockito, PowerMockito, EasyMock, etc.
• BDD automation tools like Cucumber, JBehave etc.
• Execute performance and security tests addressing non-functional requirements

Education :

Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field .