Director, Engineering

Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication and is positioned at every step of the value chain from consulting to execution combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Through a unified and fluid organization Publicis Groupe partners with its clients across communication media data and technology to ensure access to the full breadth of capabilities in every market. Present in over 100 countries Publicis Groupe employs around 103000 professionals.

Passionate detail oriented Team Lead to own the design and delivery of cloud-native event-driven microservices on AWS. Youll split time between building and leading: writing C#/.NET code enforcing standards like Clean Architecture/Clean Code/RESTful design architecting solutions evaluating and proposing new technologieswhile also mentoring engineers pairing reviewing code and setting engineering standards for testing CI/CD and observability. You should be able to make independent architecture and product decisions manage trade-offs and drive continuous improvement. Partner with product and platform teams and collaborate with front-end data devops engineers. Operate in an agile environment within a larger technology organization owning quality across the SDLC and outcomes for your product domain.

• Translate the Product Owners vision into pragmatic software designs and drive them through implementation to secure observable and scalable production releases using standard processes.
• Set and enforce engineering standards patterns and procedures across the team and enterprise (Clean Architecture testing security observability).
• Lead delivery of RESTful and event-driven microservices data stores (SQL/NoSQL) caching and integrations; instrument services with logging and APM.
• Mentor engineers via design and code reviews pairing and feedback to ensure alignment with the target architecture.
• Evaluate and recommend third-party platforms/tools; design integrations and migration paths with vendors when appropriate.
• Author clear technical specs and architecture diagrams; present proposals to architects and technical leads.
• Partner with UX/Design and front-end engineers to align application architecture with user experience and non-functional requirements.
• Deliver performant secure maintainable and scalable systems in production.

Technical Skills:

• C#/.NET ( Core async programming EF Core/Dapper) Clean Architecture and DDD
• AWS for production systems: EKS Lambda API Gateway Cognito CloudFront S3 SQL Server/PostgreSQL MongoDB SQS/SNS IAM CloudWatch
• Microservices & event-driven design: REST/gRPC APIs messaging outbox/saga patterns idempotency resilience (timeouts retries circuit breakers)
• Containers & orchestration: Docker Kubernetes (Helm) image hardening and Git-based CI/CD (branching strategies releases hotfixes)
• Relational data modeling & performance: schema design indexing query tuning transactions (SQL Server/PostgreSQL)
• Testing strategy: unit integration contract and load testing; designing for testability
• Observability & operations: logging metrics distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) APM debugging and performance tuning in production
• Caching search and messaging platforms (e.g. Redis OpenSearch/Elasticsearch Kafka/SNS/SQS)
• Infrastructure as Code and orchestration pipelines (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK); GitOps practices
• Security by design: OAuth2/OIDC JWT secrets management encryption in transit/at rest OWASP/ASVS least privilege

Working knowledge of:

• Data engineering: ingestion transformation CDC/ETL governance and compliance
• Modern data platforms (e.g. Databricks Snowflake)
• Integrating AI/ML and LLM APIs into services and pipelines (production readiness cost/latency/observability) MCP/A2A/Agentic flows

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors in CS or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 1012 years of software development with 35 years leading teams/architecting solutions

Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were better together and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities across all facets of intersectionality and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage dental vision disability 401K as well as parental and family care leave family forming assistance tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.

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