Sapient Global Markets - Director - Product Engineering

At Sapient Global Markets, we are quite literally on the front lines of the biggest issues facing the global markets leaders today - investment banks, asset management firms, wealth managers, oil and energy firms, and government and regulatory agencies. Driving transformation and leading change within these industries requires big thinkers who bring insight, knowledge, technical acumen and passion for innovation. What we offer is the opportunity to join a recognized leader in developing and delivering groundbreaking solutions for today's dynamic global marketplace and an award-winning culture that fosters growth and leadership. Choose to be a Troublemaker - challenge the status quo, innovate, disrupt and seize the opportunity to transform yourself. All this while having fun along the way!

As the Platform Engineering Tech Lead your team will play a most crucial role in the delivery of our enterprise products and services to our large and growing global customer base.

- As the leader of the Platform Engineering team, you will be expected to work closely with clients and colleagues in marketing, sales and product management. You must be able to work as part of a team or independently and be able to effectively prioritise work items. This is an opportunity to work within an extremely dynamic environment and the role expects you to be efficient and engaging. You will have the opportunity to have a direct influence on day to day operations, driving innovation and building pathbreaking products and solutions.

- As the Platform Engineering Tech Lead, your team will be responsible for delivering cloud-based PaaS solutions and products. You will be responsible for design, architecture, development, deployment and operations of the platform from engineering perspective. You would be responsible for building a secure, resilient, high availability platform. You will be involved in the design and architecture of the platform required to deliver and sustain our portfolio of online services

Technical Skills

- Minimum of 20 years experience in the technology field.

- 5+ years of strong experience with cloud services (Azure preferred)

- Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and database administration, including Always On.

- Strong knowledge of Azure, including PaaS and IaaS architectures.

- Knowledge of networking engineering, including DNS, Active Directory, firewalls, load balancers, etc.

- Knowledge of best practices for IT operations in an always-on, always-available service model

- Proven background in the design and implementation of large scale, global, complex custom application development systems (e.g., high transaction volumes).

- Advanced understanding of distributed systems architecture in Azure on a global basis

- Experience problem solving issues on globally distributed systems and critical product service environments

- Capable of technical deep dives into infrastructure, databases, and applications as needed, yet cognitively agile enough to have strategy discussions with leadership

- Must understand the Agile methodology and have worked on a Scrum team.

- Experience of practical implementations of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools.

- Direct, hands-on experience with DevOps and release management tools

- Experience with continuous integration tools, such as VSTS, Bamboo, Jenkins, Microsoft TFS, TeamCity, etc.

- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately with corporate executives and technical teams.

- Excellent influencing and reasoning skills; good at conflict resolution and consensus building.

Must have experience

- Experience working on architecting, designing, delivering and maintaining a large product or platform on cloud using PaaS services.

- Experience with building and operating a real time system.

- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills

- Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and communication skills

- Demonstrated leadership and team-building abilities

- Creativity, self-confidence, and flexibility