Director of Technology - Financial Services

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.

Role

The Director of Technology, Financial Services exclusively supports our most rapidly growing business across the DACH region. This is a unique opportunity within Publicis Sapient to assume a critical role as the Technology & Engineering SME for Financial Services in DACH and be part of a passionate team who build what matters.

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 German Banking Sector (e.g. public, private, cooperative and 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 DACH 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 DACH technology industry forums and platforms

Your Business & Consulting skills

• You will possess strong knowledge of at least one segment of the German 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 DACH 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 realisation
• You will be Fluent in German (Native or C1) and English

• You have extensive experience in defining end-to-end enterprise architecture and leading 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

• You bring a well-established professional network across the Frankfurt banking and financial services ecosystem, enabling you to support the continued growth of both our client relationships and technology capability

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations 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.