Manager Technology-Java

Company Description

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 start-up 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.

Job Description

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Manager Technology, Java to lead a team of top-notch technologists. You will work with global agile teams on a range of technologies to develop, test, and deliver products with quality for leading clients in the US. Working alongside other talented minds with strong technical skills, you’ll solve complex business problems to deliver software applications and services that positively impact our clients and their customers.

Your Daily Duties and Impact :

Help define and prioritize Epics and Stories, grooming Stories functionally and help define the acceptance criteria (Functional and Non-Functional/NFRs) and collaborate with stakeholders to shape end-to-end customer requirements

Lead the technical grooming, brainstorming, and whiteboarding design sessions to define and articulate the solution approaches, identify tasks and estimates, and design and document sub-system(s) along with interfaces and wireframes

Bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the sub-system level and question the status quo

Work with architects and technology managers to define the overall system architecture, standards, and guidelines, helping them with the details of the sub-system specifics

Proactive about reduction of tech debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using productivity tools and dashboards for monitoring and alerts

Accountable for sub-system design, development, and deployment, quality with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards

Resolve problems at an epic level, given the overall business requirements

Design Sub-systems concentrated on solving business problems; Ensure Implementation is in-line with design and well-integrated with all other dependent sub-systems/systems

Evangelize adoption of test-first approach and TDD, and apply BDD for Functional and Integration testing; Review Unit and Acceptance Test suites

Work in the spirit of agile and a product engineering mindset, motivating the sprint outcomes, iteratively and incrementally, following the agile ceremonies

Use SCM like GIT and advocate the relevant branching strategies for code development

Use Static Analysis and Profiling tools to ensure high code quality and performance

Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), configuration as code, user manuals to help in the support and training

Collaborate with global teams using integrated tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.

Perform peer reviews of system/sub-system, module-level design, and implementation and work with SDE-IIIs to establish coding standards

Practice DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, deploy and support the implementation from Dev., QA environments to production

Mentor and guide, regularly evangelize the engineering mindset and culture,

Share knowledge within peer groups, SDE-Is, ASDEs, while providing and receiving constructive feedback

Qualifications

Your Technical Skills and Experience:

7 years of strong software development experience with expertise in Java 8 and above. Experience with Multi-threading, Collections, and concurrent API. Knowledge and how to apply the latest Java (9) features

A breadth of concepts, tools, and technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and advocate relevant trade-offs

Thorough experience in writing high-quality code with full automated unit test coverage (Junit, Mockito, etc.)

Experience in Microservices, 12-factor methodology, and automated integration testing

Experience in API management, Swagger

Deep experience in defining and applying design standards, patterns, quality matrix depending on the solutions

Working experience with data platforms (relational and/or NoSQL) and messaging technologies

Excellent OOPs, data structure, algorithm knowledge

Working experience with common UNIX commands and scripts

Understanding of HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates, SAML, Vaults, Key rotation, OAuth, JWT, MFA, DDOS, etc.

Experience with containers and virtualization (Docker, Vagrant)

Experience with distributed, cloud design patterns and architectural styles

Experience with developing high performance and high scalability enterprise applications using one or more supporting cloud platforms across SaaS and PaaS including Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform

Experience practicing infra as code using tools like terraform, cloud-formation, ansible, etc.

Ability to set up a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure from grounds-up (Jenkins, Bamboo)

Knowledge of load-balancers, CDNs, Edge caching, reverse proxies

Ability and willingness to learn technologies at pace

Excellent verbal and written communication

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Set Yourself Apart With:

Experience in one or more front-end development technologies

Working experience creating high performing applications including profiling and tuning (of those applications to boost performance)

Knowledge of one or more security or integration framework

Experience in TDD/BDD

Experience in Scrum/Agile

Cloud Certifications at a professional or Architect level

Willingness to travel

Additional Information

Pay Range: $123,000 – $175,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued

16 paid holidays throughout the year

Generous parental leave and new parent transition program

Tuition reimbursement

Corporate gift matching program

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. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at 1-617-621-0200.