Director Of Software Engineering
We are looking for a hands-on Director of Software Engineering to lead the development of a modern Integration Platform that ingests, transforms, and loads data from various third-party connectors into our core People Cloud Platform. This role demands strong technical leadership, deep software engineering expertise, and a passion for modern infrastructure and deployment practices. You will lead and mentor high-performing engineering teams while actively contributing to architectural decisions and code review efforts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and oversee data ingestion pipelines from external APIs, file-based sources, and event streams into the People Cloud using Databricks, Spark, and custom ETL services.
- Build reusable, scalable connector frameworks with monitoring, retry logic, and transformation capabilities.
- Ensure seamless integration with the People Cloud's APIs, data models, and customer-facing features.
- Drive backend development with Java/Spring Boot and real-time and batch data processing strategies.
- Oversee the frontend architecture (Angular) for internal tools and dashboards managing connectors, data flows, and transformation logic.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and cloud infrastructure teams to align technical delivery with business goals.
- Ensure the platform is multi-cloud compatible, leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP services where needed.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and blue-green deployment strategies for highly reliable releases.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years in software engineering, with a strong foundation in backend systems and data engineering.
- 5+ years of leadership experience, including team building, mentoring, and delivery management.
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and building cloud-native microservices.
- Strong understanding of data integration patterns, API consumption, and real-time/batch ETL.
- Experience building multi-connector frameworks is a big plus.
- Knowledge of Angular for front-end development and dashboarding.
- Proven experience with multi-cloud deployment, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tools.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and blue-green deployments in production environments.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred Experience: Building integrations with systems like Salesforce, Workday, Marketo, Google Ads, Segment, Snowflake.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, or equivalent data processing platforms.
- Strong understanding of data integration patterns, API consumption, and real-time/batch ETL.
- Experience with: RAG (Retrieval?Augmented Generation) architectures Agentic AI systems (tool?using agents, orchestration, multi?step reasoning workflows).
- Experience with spec?driven AI?assisted development
When you join Epsilon, we'll create something EPIC together. We're a global leader in data and identity, with deep expertise in digital media, clean rooms, customer data platforms, loyalty and marketing services. Positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon helps brands deliver personalized experiences at scale and build lasting customer relationships by unlocking the full potential of data and identity. Epsilon operates in 30+ countries across EMEA, the Americas and APAC, with more than 8,000 employees.
Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms. Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilon's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants who need accommodations to complete the application process.
Compensation Range: USD $129,500.00 - USD $240,500.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.