Director, Engineering

Company Description

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 103,000 professionals.

Passionate, detail oriented, hands-on .NET Team Lead to own the design and delivery of cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS. You’ll 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 technologies—while 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 Owner’s 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/No
  
  SQL), 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 (ASP.NET Core, async programming, EF Core/Dapper), Clean Architecture, and DDD
• AWS for production systems: EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, Cloud Front, S3, SQL Server/Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, SQS/SNS, IAM, Cloud Watch
• 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/Postgre
  
  SQL)
• Testing strategy: unit, integration, contract, and load testing; designing for testability
• Observability & operations: logging, metrics, distributed tracing (Open Telemetry), APM, debugging and performance tuning in production
• Caching, search, and messaging platforms (e.g., Redis, Open Search/Elasticsearch, Kafka/SNS/SQS)
• Infrastructure as Code and orchestration pipelines (Terraform/Cloud Formation/CDK);
  Git Ops 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:

• Bachelor’s in CS or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10–12+ years of software development with 3–5+ years leading teams/architecting solutions

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