Senior Manager Technology - GCP

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 - Senior Manager Technology

The Sr. Manager – Technology will lead the shaping, consulting, and delivery of engineering transformation programs across diverse industries, with a strong focus on the Saudi Arabia Public Sector. They will work closely with senior client stakeholders, Digital Transformation leaders, and Publicis Sapient’s Technology, Regional, and Industry leadership.

This is an exciting opportunity for a consultative engineering leader to make a tangible impact across Saudi Arabia’s Public Sector. The Sr. Manager will support government organizations in accelerating large-scale digital transformation, implementing modern cloud-native architectures, and responsibly leveraging emerging technologies—such as Generative and Agentic AI—to deliver citizen-centric services at national scale.

• You are a high-performance engineer expected to work in a product squad and drive solutions for a large-scale client.
• Understands the client business domain and drives Digital Business Transformation (DBT) opportunity end-to-end.
• Strong expertise in Gen AI/ML space.
• Implemented successful solutions using cloud platforms like AWS or GCP or Azure.
• Drive architecture, design, estimation, planning, and collaborate with the client to implement and take solutions to production.
• Collaborate with Senior stakeholders, Product Managers, and Platform Engineers to define the architecture, engineering practices & guidelines.
• Coach, mentor, and guide product engineering culture and own people s growth.

• 12+ years of experience in building large-scale, high-volume, low latency, high availability, and complex distributed services.
• A hands-on solution architect who has delivered at least 5-7 large to medium scale projects from ground zero.
• Experience leading global or distributed engineering teams (10+ engineers)
• Software engineering experience with:
  • Java and distributed systems
  • One or more hyperscaler platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)
  • Cloud-native application architecture
  • Microservices architecture
  • API management and integration platforms
  • Headless digital architectures
  • Event-driven systems
  • Data and analytics platforms
  • CI/CD and Dev Ops environments
  • Enterprise integration technologies (iPaaS, ESB, ETL)
• AI & Data experience with:
  • Agentic AI on hyperscaler platforms (e.g. Google Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI)
  • Generative AI and Agentic AI architectures
  • Modern data platforms, machine learning environments, and AI-enabled applications
• Preferred:
  Arabic speakers / natives

Education: Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Industry knowledge of key Travel & Hospitality (T&H) and Saudi government sectors.
• Openness to travel as part of the role.

• 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.