**Overview** Senior Manager, Technology Fancy joining a global organisation that is revolutionising the digital landscape? Today, as clients across industries are moving from digitally extending their businesses to placing digital at the core, Publicis Sapient has an unprecedented opportunity to help them succeed. We’re looking for a Senior Manager Technology to join our 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 technology team you’ll also be responsible for providing thought leadership at a 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 Experience Required: • 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 • Experience in systems integration, package implementation, and/or interactive design. • 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 ideally 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 hyperscale 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. Nice to have technical skills: • Multi-threading programming concepts • React Native • Netty, AKKA, Vert.x, CEP engines • GraphQL • Redux or Mobx • Kubernetes • Multi-tenant architectures deployed in the cloud, Other skills/responsibilities: • 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 Publicis Sapient is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits any forms of Discrimination or Harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees in line with our Employment Equity Plan. All appointments will be based on qualifications, experience and best fit but preference will be given to candidates from designated groups. Interested candidates must please submit a concise CV including references. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks after submitting your application, please consider your application as unsuccessful.