Publicis Groupe - Senior Technical Lead (8-10 yrs)

Responsibilities :

Technical Leadership & Strategy :

- Define and drive the overall project technical strategy, ensuring alignment with the project business objectives and goals.

- Provide technical direction and support to Technical Managers (Tech Leads) and development teams.

- In cooperation with Technical Lead establish technical standards and practices, including software architecture, development methodologies, and toolsets.

- Lead technical planning and decision-making for high-impact initiatives, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

- Work closely with the Engineering Director to set long-term technology goals and roadmaps.

- Participate in review and approval of technical proposals, architectural designs, and complex technical solutions.

- Lead post-mortems and implement lessons learned after major incidents or challenges.

Collaboration :

- Coordinate with other project roles (eg.Project Leads, Project Managers) to ensure smooth project execution.

- Act as a technical liaison between technical teams and project leadership.

- Facilitate cross-team technical initiatives, ensuring collaboration and knowledge sharing between different technical teams.

- Lead technical discussions and decisions that impact multiple teams, ensuring consensus and alignment.

Team Development :

- Mentor Technical Managers, encouraging their leadership and technical growth.

- Support the professional development of the technical team through coaching, training, and performance feedback.

- Ensure regular performance evaluations for technical staff, with a focus on career progression and skill development.

- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging teams to adopt new tools, methodologies, and practices.

Business & Process Improvement :

- Keep deep knowledge of the project's key business objectives and ensure technical decisions align with these objectives.

- Understand the unique needs and technical challenges of each client or project and ensure solutions meet both technical and business requirements.

- Serve as a technical expert in client discussions, helping to guide technical decisions that support business outcomes.

- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and quality standards across the technical organization.

- Encourage teams to experiment with and adopt innovative technologies, frameworks, and practices.

- Implement strategies to optimize resource allocation, development velocity, and operational efficiency.

Skills and Knowledge :

- Knowledge of web development, HTML, CSS, JavaScript & Typescript.

- Experience with front-end frameworks, ideally React and/or Astro.

- Some understanding of email development.

- Knowledge of Veeva ecosystem: Vault Promomats, Veeva CRM, Salesforce.

- Backend development in node.js.

- QA processes, mostly manual testing.

- Good overview of Jira, automations.

Exp : 8-10 yrs