Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations 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 startup mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

This is an excellent opportunity for a consultative engineering leader to join our DACH business and assume a key role within the wider EMEA Publicis Sapient Energy & Commodities (E&C) business. This role will see the successful individual lead engineering transformation on a wide range of enterprise scale data and cloud engineering programmes for our E&C clients, spanning the full value chain.  

Your Impact

• Deliver state-of-the-art solutions across for a range of world class energy sector clients by harnessing the latest data and cloud technologies
• Unlock the value of energy clients’ data for their organization together with AI, machine learning and analytics teams
• Deliver disruptive technology transformation that will help clients make the transition into the renewable and sustainable energy space
• Lead and inspire global technology teams to deliver best of breed solutions and provide valuable energy industry expertise to Publicis Sapient’ s DACH and EMEA Technology teams

Your Skills & Experience

Technology

• Extensive experience in leading architecture, design and delivery of modern Data and Cloud Technology solutions
• Experienced in creating large scale architectures, estimating costs, managing dependencies and complexities
• Software development background utilising data technologies and related frameworks and have strong understanding of industry standard DevOps practices for CI/CD and Quality Engineering
• Bring a strong point of view on and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, business intelligence and reporting & analytics in context of the energy & commodities domain

Business & Consulting

• Extensive experience in delivering technology solutions to Energy sector clients, evidenced by a good understanding of key energy upstream and downstream business functions (e.g. Power Generation, Renewables, Transmission, Distribution, R&D, Supply)
• Strong consultative skills with proven experience in interfacing with and advising senior stakeholders up to the C Level, appropriately increasing/decreasing the level of detail for the audience
• Ability to drive creation of proposals from a solution, architecture, estimation and plan standpoint.
• Experienced in leading scaled up engineering teams of 30+ individuals and demonstrate excellent communication, presentation and collaboration skills

Set yourself apart with

• Fluency in German and English
• Experience of delivering technology solutions that help Energy companies make the transition to renewables
• Thought leadership experience e.g. writing blogs, creating PoV’s, possess knowledge of industry trends, attending/presenting in internal/external technical forums, mentorship

Benefits of Working Here:

• We work with cutting-edge technology which has always been part of our DNA and we want our employees to define what technologies our clients use next
• We provide many learning opportunities to deepen your skillset and to support your professional growth
• We offer numerous discounts on travel, cultural and leisure activities
• We put the well-being of our people first and organize various health initiatives 
• We offer you a vibrant workplace culture with many different community events throughout the year 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.  

Possible job locations: Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg