Company description

Publicis Media helps clients drive sustainable business growth by harnessing the modern media landscape to drive one-to-one consumer connections at scale. Publicis Media UK is made up of 2000 people working across market-leading media agencies including Zenith, Starcom and Spark Foundry as well as specialist practices Publicis Media Exchange (PMX), Performics, Publicis Sport & Entertainment, Publicis Media Content and NextTECHnow. Together they combine deep expertise in media investment, strategy, insights and analytics, data and technology, commerce, performance marketing and content. Publicis Media is part of Publicis Groupe and is present in more than 100 countries with over 23,500 employees worldwide.

Our Commitment
Publicis Media is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.

About Publicis Performics:
Are you ready to re-invent digital marketing? At Performics, we’re accelerating the great missions of our clients in the ever-evolving world of Social engine marketing, programmatic, social media, Commerce and affiliates. If you’re ready to move at the speed of Google, Facebook, and Amazon, have an entrepreneurial spirit, get excited about finding smarter ways to do things, and demand performance for your clients, we’d love to meet you. We’ll give you the tools, support, and freedom to lead, innovate, and grow.

Why Work with Us?
The Performics function strategizes and provides digital activation services for global advertisers in over 57+ markets around the world with the aim to deliver the optimal outcome. Our Performance Centre of Excellence drives performance solutions across several channels including social, programmatic, commerce and affiliates.

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Engineering Lead to manage multiple engineering teams responsible for building and maintaining innovative, high-performance marketing solutions tailored to specific verticals (e.g., e-commerce, travel, finance, etc.). These solutions will leverage various performance marketing channels, including search, social, and programmatic. You will play a critical role in defining the overall system architecture, driving technical vision, ensuring high-quality software delivery, and fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented engineering environment. This is a hands-on leadership role, where you will both guide teams and contribute to critical architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

•Technical Leadership & Vision:
• Define and champion the overall architecture for our performance marketing platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Establish clear technology roadmaps aligned with business goals and product strategy.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and methodologies to enhance our platforms capabilities and performance.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices in performance marketing, cloud computing, and software development.

•Team Management & Mentorship:
• Manage and mentor multiple engineering teams, providing guidance, feedback, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication between teams and stakeholders (product, marketing, operations).
• Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and provide career development opportunities.

•Architecture & Service Design:
• Design and oversee the development of shared foundational services and components to be leveraged across all verticals.
• Collaborate with teams to identify the appropriate level of shared versus vertical-specific components.
• Ensure services are designed for high performance, scalability, and maintainability within a cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Promote the adoption of standardized engineering practices and tools.
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide guidance to ensure consistency and quality.

•Merging Externally-Written Solutions:
• Establish a process to be followed when considering an externally-written solution to determine whether the solution can be supported by existing teams.
• Identify support/maintenance gaps, and how to fill those gaps prior to go-live of the adopted solution.
• Establish a checklist to be followed when an externally-written solution is incorporated into the product suite, covering requirements for application security (SSO, prevention of SQL injection, etc.), logging, deployment processes, documentation, etc.

•Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps:
• Drive the architecture and adoption of cloud-based solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure) and related services for scalability, availability and reliability.
• Champion best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated deployments.
• Contribute to capacity planning and performance monitoring.

•Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Marketing stakeholders to align technical strategy with business objectives.
• Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Facilitate cross-functional problem-solving and drive solutions to complex challenges.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role managing multiple engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles, and best practices.
• Proven experience in designing and developing scalable, high-performance, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and related services.
• Working knowledge of performance marketing concepts and experience working with search, social, or programmatic advertising platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Bonus Points:
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Masters degree preferred).
• Understanding of performance marketing concepts and strategies.
• Understand the data flows and dependencies within performance marketing campaigns.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with data engineering and data warehousing solutions.
• Experience working with real-time data processing systems.
• Contributions to open source projects.

Additional information

Publicis Mediahas fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLDopportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• REFLECTION DAYS- Two additional days of paid leave to step away from your usual day-to-day work and create time to focus on your well-being and self-care.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIESWe provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity, Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING, BANK HOLIDAY SWAP&BIRTHDAY DAY OFFYou are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday, from your first day of employment.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTSThis includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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