Director of Software Engineering

Director of Software Engineering

Publicis Sapient is a leading digital transformation partner, helping established organizations reimagine their future in a digitally enabled world. We empower businesses to evolve—both in how they operate and how they serve their customers—by combining a start‑up mindset with modern methods and deep industry expertise. Our approach fuses strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem‑solving creativity to unlock real business value. With over 20,000 professionals across 53 global offices, we bring together the best of technology, data science, and human insight to design and build the products and services that people truly value. Driven by our purpose—to help people thrive in the brave pursuit of the next—we are united by a shared commitment to innovation, collaboration, and continuous transformation.

About the Client : We’re partnering with a global leader in the healthcare and data services space—a company that combines one of the world’s largest health insurance networks with advanced analytics, pharmacy services, and care delivery. Their mission is to make healthcare more accessible, intelligent, and sustainable through technology‑driven solutions. This client operates on an enterprise scale and is currently undergoing a major modernization of its pharmacy systems, leveraging cloud and AI to bring cutting‑edge transformation to legacy platforms.

Role Overview

As a Director of Software Engineering , you will play a pivotal role in ensuring engineering excellence across the portfolio. You’ll work closely with senior client stakeholders and internal leadership (e.g., John Pendleton, US) to coach senior managers, guide technical decision‑making, and lead cross‑pod architecture integration. You will also engage in staffing, estimation, client consulting, and ensure scalable, maintainable delivery across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high‑performing network of ~40 senior managers, indirectly supporting hundreds of engineers across global pods, and promoting engineering excellence, accountability, and quality.
• Coach and develop talent at scale, identifying capability gaps and enabling technical growth across distributed teams.
• Act as a senior escalation point for architecture validation, production troubleshooting, and legacy refactoring decisions.
• Guide strategic architectural direction—especially in microservices, data pipelines, and AI integrations—to ensure scalable and maintainable outcomes.
• Drive alignment across architecture domains and promote adoption of DevOps, CI / CD, cloud‑native standards, and AI‑assisted testing practices.
• Partner with client and internal stakeholders to oversee project health, staffing, and delivery KPIs, ensuring organizational visibility and risk mitigation.
• Lead discussions with engineering teams to validate technical proposals and approve go / no‑go decisions in architecture reviews.
• Empower engineering teams to leverage platforms such as Azure OpenAI to modernize codebases and boost testing coverage.
• Deliver regular insights to client and leadership stakeholders on engineering health, velocity, and continuous improvement opportunities.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

A Tip from the Hiring Manager : “This is a role for someone who thrives in complexity, drives clarity at scale, and truly believes in the power of coaching leaders, not just code.”

Benefits

Inclusive Culture & Growth

Compensation & Flexibility

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 hiring@publicis.sapient.com.

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