Retail Enterprise Cloud (GCP) Architect Chicago Hybrid

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 20000 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.

As an Architect specializing in Enterprise Architecture you will be responsible for designing and implementing high-impact scalable solutions that align with business objectives. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks ensuring that technology solutions are in line with business goals and industry best practices.

• Develop and implement enterprise architecture strategies that support business objectives and digital transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to define architecture roadmaps ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Design and optimize enterprise-wide systems ensuring scalability security and performance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend innovative solutions that drive business value.
• Lead architecture reviews ensuring that solutions adhere to best practices and compliance standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

• Senior hands-on engineering leadership experience in GCP enterprise architecture solution architecture software architecture
• Experience designing and modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.
• Strong background in retail restaurant hospitality point-of-sale payments digital commerce or distributed store systems.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing monolithic applications into modular or microservices-based architectures.
• Experience designing solutions across cloud on-premises hybrid and edge environments.
• Strong understanding of APIs event-driven architecture distributed systems messaging integration and data patterns
• Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform services including GKE Cloud Run Compute Engine Pub/Sub BigQuery Cloud Functions and Apigee
• Working knowledge of containers Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code CI/CD observability and DevOps practices.
• Experience integrating payment terminals store peripherals or other hardware with enterprise applications.
• Understanding of payment security privacy resilience and production-operational requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead design reviews architecture governance proof-of-concepts and technical-risk assessments.
• Experience mentoring architects or engineers and providing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Strong written verbal presentation facilitation and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience with Java and modern Java frameworks including Spring Boot Micronaut or comparable technologies.
• Experience with Pub/Sub Kafka Cassandra distributed messaging or event-streaming platforms.
• Experience with AWS Azure Terraform Docker Kubernetes Helm Ansible Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of point-of-sale integration standards such as JPOS or OPOS.
• Experience with payment authorization reconciliation settlement-related processing or acquirer integration.
• Familiarity with Prometheus Grafana Splunk or comparable monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience applying Domain-Driven Design CQRS SOLID test-driven development behavior-driven development and Agile delivery practices.
• Experience supporting technology deployed across a large distributed estate of restaurants or stores.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred.
• Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics information systems or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.

Salary Range: $136000 - $190000 annual salary

The range above represents a grouping of ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. The actual range for this position may vary based on location and the specific skills required for the role.

An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.

• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race color national origin ethnicity gender protected veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability you may contact us at