About Publicis Re:Sources

Publicis Re:Sources is the backbone of Publicis Groupe, the world’s third-largest communications group. Formed in 1998 as a small team to service a few Publicis Groupe firms, Publicis Re:Sources has grown to 4,000+ people servicing a global network of prestigious advertising, public relations, media, healthcare and digital marketing agencies. We provide technology solutions and business services including finance, accounting, legal, benefits, procurement, tax, real estate, treasury and risk management to help Publicis Groupe agencies do what they do best: create and innovate for their clients.  In addition to providing essential, everyday services to the 86,000+ global Publicis Groupe employees, we build products and support capabilities that advances Publicis Groupe’s long-term growth strategy — taking even the smallest ideas into big concepts and beyond.

In addition to providing essential, everyday services to our agencies, Publicis Re:Sources develops and implements platforms, applications and tools to enhance productivity, encourage collaboration and enable professional and personal development. We continually transform to keep pace with our ever-changing communications industry and thrive on a spirit of innovation felt around the globe. With our support, Publicis Groupe agencies continue to create and deliver award-winning campaigns for their clients.

The company is a premier shared services company serving the financial, technological and administrative needs of U.S.-based business units of the world’s third largest Communications company.  With 2021 net revenues of over 10 billion Euros, the parent company specializes in Advertising, Digital, Media buying and consultancy.  The parent company is present in over 100+ countries on 5 continents, with 80,000 employees.

About Marcel

Marcel is the AI platform that connects more than 80,000 employees at Publicis Groupe— across geographies, agencies and capabilities. Marcel helps our employees learn, share, create, connect and grow more than ever before. Marcel connects employees to our culture, helps them master new skills, inspires them and tackles diversity and inclusion head on to help build a better world together. It’s a place where we come together every day to amplify each other as one global team.

All of this employee engagement creates over 100 million data points that power our AI-enabled knowledge graph, making the experience even more relevant for employees. And for our clients, our knowledge graph makes Marcel one of the most powerful tools ever invented for finding exactly the right expertise, teams and knowledge that we need to win in the Platform World.

Marcel is a strategic investment in our people and is aimed at being their personal growth engine in this hybrid world. This role is joining the dynamic Marcel team in helping build and evolve this product.

Responsibilities

• Be the direct contact for internal clients for all technical aspects during the initial engagement and kick-off stages of application development projects. Have the ability to drive high level solution architecture design (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Support the project team for all technology related issues, including Agile tools and Source Control.
• Provide knowledge on full-scale continuous delivery process & solutions and understand continuous integration and automated tests (unit, front-end, load) frameworks, scripts and other artefacts created by engineers and be able to support the systems evolution as and when necessary.
• Be responsible for the setup, continuous maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of development/ testing/ staging and production environments across internal clients accounts in collaboration with the technology team.

The key accountabilities for this role are, but not limited to;

• Ability to develop technical solutions and share with client & team
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Sprint planning, Product Demonstrations
• The technical team is appropriately mentored.
• The deliverables for each Sprint are clearly understood by the Agile Team(s).
• Ensure that the Agile team(s) delivers working software of sufficient quality to deliver to clients at the end of each development sprint.
• Provide Risk Management for all technical risks
• The Agile Requirements Repository is properly administered.
• Source Control repositories are appropriately managed
• The Agile team receives sufficient resourcing to be able to complete its objectives.
• Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub second response times.

Specific responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and maintain high performing & scalable cloud hosted microservices using Node.js frameworks which are highly responsive to requests from front-end.
• Follow best practices for test driven environment, continuous integration.
• Design, develop, test and implement end-to-end requirement
• Contribute on all phases of development life cycle
• Conduct code reviews to ensure code meets industry accepted standards. Additionally, ensuring that application is not vulnerable to security threats.
• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the application and responsiveness to client application requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
• Actively develop and maintain strong working relationships with all Re:Sources personnel both at a interpersonal level and across all business processes within the wider business environment.
• Actively maintain communication and behaviour standards that foster a culture of strong customer and service excellence both within Re:Sources and across all customer and supplier organisations.

The experience and education qualifications for this position include, but are not limited to the following:

Minimum experience (relevant): 9

Maximum experience (relevant): 15 

Must have skills:

• Should have at least 3 + years of experience in Node.JS development.
• Should have solid experience in API Background and No SQL Database.
• Strong knowledge of scripting like EJS, JavaScript, Typescript and frameworks.
• Proven experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks like Angular and React.
• Strong proficiency in MySQL/MSSQL
• Good Understanding of Graph Database like Neo4J, Orient DB, Cosmos
• Experience in writing unit tests (JEST/ MOCHA/CHAI)
• In Depth Knowledge of Creating Secure Restful Web Services or Microservices along with caching, content management capabilities. Knowledge of API Design and Development and Security Patterns on API.
• Consistently performing code review
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Familiarity with Azure Cloud

Good to have skills :

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field from an accredited college or university; Master's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
• Facilitation of requirements analysis meetings
• Agile techniques and methodologies
• Knowledge of Agile lifecycle management repositories 

Attributes/behaviors

• Ability to design, develop, implement complex requirement.

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

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) currently in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at-will" relations.