Lead Full Stack Engineer (Senior Manager, Technology)

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.

We’re looking for a Lead Full Stack Engineer (Senior Manager, Technology) to join our London team and help deliver some of the most cutting-edge projects happening within Financial Services right now. You will be a leader, working and mentoring across multidisciplinary, international project teams and lead the design and development of high-performance software applications, user interfaces and technology integrations consumed by millions of users. As a Senior Manager in our engineering team you’ll also be responsible for providing thought leadership at local and regional level about full-stack development, emerging technologies and languages. You’ll also help us develop capabilities, clients, and domain skills as well as taking an active role in business development, project supervision and day-to-day team management.

Your Impact

• Design and build complex technology solutions using best in class libraries and frameworks and design principles.
• Work closely with clients to establish technology solutions at business and technical levels.
• Lead design, estimation, planning, and implementation of business solutions.
• Design and build solution frameworks following best practices.
• Interact with business stakeholders to provide technical solutions delivering to business needs.
• Consult clients’ senior technical leaders on best practice point of view.
• Be self-motivated and able to thrive in an Agile environment.
• Maintain leading-edge knowledge in emerging technologies; drive knowledge sharing and lessons learnt sessions from knowledge and experience.
• Assist in business development activities including providing technical input and strategy into client proposals and RFP’s.

Qualifications

Your Skills and Experience

• Experience in systems architecture, integration, package implementation, and/or interactive design.
• Experience of working on large scale, complex, and distributed applications in an Agile environment.
• Experience and proficiency across the stack – ability to develop modern front-ends along with coding secure and extensible back-end services.
• Good level of understanding of software design principles like Microservices, Domain-driven design, SOLID, DRY, SoC, etc.
• Excellent understanding of Core Java and large scale distributed systems.
• TDD Must haves: Back-end skills.
• Experience of developing server-side services with Java and one or more of Node.js or similar backend languages (C#/.NET omitted).
• Designing and creating REST APIs.
• Experience of integration technologies like SOAP.
• Strong understanding and experience of relational and NoSQL database design and implementation.
• Experience building on container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes.
• Front-end skills: Experience of using at least one of these JavaScript frameworks to create modern front-ends - React.js, Angular or Vue.
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript.
• Webpack or Gulp.
• A client-side Unit Testing framework e.g., Mocha or Jest.
• Other technical skills: API Management and Documentation (Swagger.io, I/O Docs).
• Experience with high scale, highly transactional, high performance, highly available systems and robust applications.
• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration including DevOps pipeline to build and deliver high quality, scalable and secure solutions.
• Implementations on and migration to Cloud services on at least one of the hyper-scale Cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS.
• Strong understanding and experience of quality engineering techniques including test-driven development (TDD), Behaviour-driven development (BDD), integration testing and performance testing.
• Some experience with AI tools (one of more of) Python, LLM (Large Language models), RAG, Langchain.

Set Yourself apart with:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience of working on large scale, complex, and distributed applications in an Agile environment.
• Experience in a consulting or client-facing role.
• Strategy development and planning skills for addressing emerging technologies.
• Client management skills to represent the domain to clients and stakeholders and build and maintain relationships with vendors.
• A Business development mind-set to help drive account development to create new business opportunities and help our sales teams by providing domain knowledge and technology content in RFP’s.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. Publicis Sapient UK is a disability confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point on the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing hiringuk@publicissapient.com. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us: hiringuk@publicissapient.com.

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