Director, Engineering

Job description

**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.

**Overview**

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.

**Responsibilities**

+ 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/NoSQL), 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.

**Qualifications**

**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, CloudFront, S3, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQS/SNS, IAM, CloudWatch
+ 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/PostgreSQL)
+ Testing strategy: unit, integration, contract, and load testing; designing for testability
+ Observability & operations: logging, metrics, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), APM, debugging and performance tuning in production
+ Caching, search, and messaging platforms (e.g., Redis, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Kafka/SNS/SQS)
+ Infrastructure as Code and orchestration pipelines (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK); GitOps 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

**Additional information**

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger.

It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization.

We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.

Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com .

Compensation Range: $132,715 - $208,840 annually.

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting.

Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met.

Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met.

For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.

The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/30/2025.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply.

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