Director of Engineering - Health

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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.

Overview

Director of Engineering - Healthcare

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead top-notch technologists to enable real business outcomes for our enterprise healthcare clients. You will create impact for some of the world’s biggest brands by translating their needs into transformative solutions that provide valuable insight. Working with the latest technologies in the industry, you will be instrumental in helping our clients evolve for a more digital future.

Responsibilities

Your Impact

• Act as a trusted advisor to healthcare clients by leveraging cloud and big data for patient engagement, operational efficiency, and large-scale digital transformation journeys.
• Manage the engineering teams' quality of delivery, mentor the technical team, manage technical risk, and face off against client IT leadership in defining the solution roadmap and converting business capabilities into digital reality.
• Provide expertise as a technical resource to solve complex business issues that translate into data integration and database systems designs.
• Shape opportunities and create execution approaches throughout the lifecycle of client engagements.
• Ensure all deliverables are of high quality by setting development standards, adhering to those standards, and participating in code reviews.
• Mentor, support, and manage team members

About You

You’re a hands-on engineering leader who doesn’t just talk strategy, you make it happen. You’re as comfortable writing code as you are shaping the technical vision, and you lead from the front with confidence and conviction. You have the consulting acumen to navigate complexity, the technical depth to solve tough problems, and the presence to hold your own in any room.

You’re fully immersed in Agentic technology and you know how to apply it to drive meaningful, scalable impact for clients. You move fast, communicate clearly, and don’t shy away from hard conversations. You take ownership, drive outcomes, and expect the same from your team. You bring grit, passion, and a relentless focus on delivery; the kind of leader who figures it out, gets it done, and raises the bar for everyone around you.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong background in healthcare industry experience, including exposure to payer, provider, or life sciences environments, with proven ability to apply technology solutions to solve sector-specific challenges (such as interoperability, patient engagement, population health, or regulatory compliance).
• Exceptional cloud/big data skills with distributed computing background and proven experience in delivering large-scale cloud platforms.
• Strong background in application development using service-oriented architecture and 12-factor methodology of building cloud-native platforms in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proven ability to lead a technical track of 10+ software engineers.
• Expertise in systems integration, custom development, and package implementation.
• Proven background as an engineering leader in delivering complex solution design, delivering large programs, and obtaining approval from enterprise architecture stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the leading public cloud data platforms (Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Hands-on programming experience in Java or Python to help teams navigate delivery challenges as required and provide succinct approaches/root cause analysis to clients.
• Ability to distill complex problems into methodologies such as Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Data pipelines, Messaging, Eventing, Async Processing.
• Understanding of modern front-end development languages and frameworks.
• Ability to lead teams that rapidly learn the client’s current digital ecosystem and produce a future data landscape vision and strategy considering the transformation agenda and business goals.
• Excellent client communication and facilitation skills, ability to influence others and gain consensus, and strong team collaboration.
• Combination of proficient consulting, business, strategy, technical, and people skills.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Certifications for any of the cloud services like AWS, GCP or Azure
• Certifications for any Machine Learning/Advanced Analytics Courses
• Experience working with healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, HL7/FHIR, or other compliance frameworks.
• Multi-geo and distributed delivery experience in large programs
• Willingness to travel

Additional Information

Level:

Director/Senior Director

Salary Range: $180,000 - $250,000

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

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 [email protected]

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]