Senior Manager, Technology at Publicis Groupe

September 8, 2025, 1:46 PM

Overview

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• As a Senior Manager in our technology team you’ll be responsible for providing thought leadership at a local and regional level about full-stack development, emerging technologies and languages. You’ll also help us develop capabilities, clients, and domain skills as well as taking an active role in business development, project supervision and day-to-day team management.

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Responsibilities

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Your Impact:

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• Design and build complex technology solutions using best in class libraries and frameworks and design principles

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• Work closely with clients to establish technology solutions at business and technical levels

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• Lead design, estimation, planning, and implementation of business solutions

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• Design and build solution frameworks following best practices

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• Interact with business stakeholders to provide technical solutions delivering to business needs.

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• Consult clients’ senior technical leaders on best practice point of view.

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• Be self-motivated and able to thrive in an Agile environment

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• Maintain leading-edge knowledge in emerging technologies; drive knowledge sharing and lessons learnt sessions from knowledge and experience

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• Assist in business development activities including providing technical input and strategy into client proposals and RFP’s Experience Required:

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• Experience in systems architecture, integration, package implementation, and/or interactive design

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• Experience of working on large scale, complex, and distributed applications in an Agile environment

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• Proficient across the stack – ability to develop modern front-ends along with coding secure and extensible back-end services

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• Experience in systems integration, package implementation, and/or interactive design.

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• Good level of understanding of software design principles like Microservices, Domain-driven design, SOLID, DRY, SoC, etc

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• Excellent understanding of Core Java and large scale distributed systems

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• TDD

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Qualifications

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Your Skills & Experience:

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• Experience of developing server-side services with Java and ideally one or more of Node.js or similar backend languages (C#/.NET omitted)

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• Designing and creating REST APIs

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• Experience of integration technologies like SOAP

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• Strong understanding and experience of relational and NoSQL database design and implementation

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• Experience building on container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes Front-end skills

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• Experience of using at least one of these JavaScript frameworks to create modern front-ends - React.js, Angular or Vue

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• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6) or TypeScript

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• Webpack or Gulp

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• A client-side Unit Testing framework e.g., Mocha or Jest Other technical skills

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• API Management and Documentation (Swagger.io, I/O Docs)

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• Experience with high scale, highly transactional, high performance, highly available systems and robust applications

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• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration including DevOps pipeline to build and deliver high quality, scalable and secure solutions

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• Implementations on and migration to Cloud services on at least one of the hyperscale Cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

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• Strong understanding and experience of quality engineering techniques including test-driven development (TDD), Behaviour-driven development (BDD), integration testing and performance testing.

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Nice to have technical skills:

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• Multi-threading programming concepts

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• React Native

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• Netty, AKKA, Vert.x, CEP engines

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• GraphQL

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• Redux or Mobx

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• Kubernetes

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• Multi-tenant architectures deployed in the cloud, Other skills/responsibilities:

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• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

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• Experience of working on large scale, complex, and distributed applications in an Agile environment

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• Experience in a consulting or client-facing role

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• Strategy development and planning skills for addressing emerging technologies

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• Client management skills to represent the domain to clients and stakeholders and build and maintain relationships with vendors

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• A Business development mind-set to help drive account development to create new business opportunities and help our sales teams by providing domain knowledge and technology content in RFP’s 

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