Director of Technology - Financial Services (CA)

Publicis Groupe; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient in Irvine seeks a Director of Technology to lead enterprise software delivery and cloud-enabled architectures across the SDLC, engaging with senior clients up to the C-suite and guiding teams toward high engineering standards.

You will drive AI adoption and modern engineering practices, mentor engineers, shape operating models, and contribute to regional growth in North America Financial Services, delivering value for clients with diverse financial services objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience influencing very senior client stakeholders up to the C-suite
• Experience delivering Digital Business Transformation for Financial Services sector clients underpinned by modern technology and methodology
• Experience delivering end-to-end outcomes for clients from ideation to value realization
• Ability to navigate the unknown and lead from the front in structuring work and driving solution options at different RFP stages
• Hands-on experience leading large-scale distributed systems with cloud adoption
• Broad knowledge of API styles and data solutions across modern data platforms

Responsibilities

• Define future/evolutionary architecture and operating model for clients
• Deliver new digital solutions and efficiencies across the North American Banking Sector
• Drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation and AI adoption to enable growth and superior customer experiences
• Contribute to regional growth by providing go-to-market strategies and new revenue opportunities
• Mentor and inspire a diverse engineering team and uphold engineering standards
• Represent Publicis Sapient in FSNA technology industry forums and platforms

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Data architecture

Leadership

Agentic AI frameworks

Tools

Docker

GKE

AKS

LangChain

HuggingFace

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

CrewAI

Job description

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 technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Your Impact

• Immersive yourself in financial services clients’ business objectives and help define future/evolutionary architecture, transition states, technology choices and operating model
• Deliver new digital solutions and efficiencies across the North American Banking Sector (e.g. public, private, cooperative, asset & wealth management, investment banking)
• Help to drive enterprise-scale engineering transformation and AI adoption to enable accelerated growth initiatives and best-in-class customer experiences
• Be part of the FSNA Financial Services Leadership team and directly contribute towards regional business growth by bringing new ideas and go-to-market strategies to unlock new revenue opportunities
• Contribute towards Publicis Sapient best in class engineering practices & initiatives, mentor and inspire a diverse and highly motivated engineering talent
• Represent Publicis Sapient in FSNA technology industry forums and platforms

Qualifications

Qualifications - Skills, Experience & Differentiators

• 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 andleading 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

Additional information

Salary Range: $210,000 - $260,000 + Discretionary Bonus

The range shown reflects a grouping of compensation ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual compensation may vary based on location and specific experience and may include additional bonus and equity components.

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