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Partnering with other senior Engineering leaders, you will align engineering priorities to product and business goals, strengthen delivery practices, and build a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will coach Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, develop future leaders, and ensure engineering decisions maximise business outcomes.\nResponsibilities\nWhat You’ll Achieve\nSet objectives across multiple teams and guide Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to translate strategy into delivery plans.\nProvide technical leadership that drives scalable architecture, high-quality systems, and pragmatic technology choices.\nCoach Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to strengthen judgement, navigate complexity, and grow capability.\nLead multiple engineering teams, creating an inclusive, collaborative, high-performing environment.\nPartner with product, design, business stakeholders, and product trios to manage expectations and maximise business outcomes.\nEncourage innovative approaches to process development, leveraging insights to enhance operational workflows.\nQualifications\nWhat you’ll bring with you:\nExperience as a senior engineering or technical leader across multiple teams.\nStrong technical depth across modern engineering practices, platforms, and technologies.\nAbility to understand strategy, set direction, and align teams to business outcomes.\nProven capability in coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering leaders.\nClear, influential communication with product, design, business, and engineering stakeholders.\nSound judgement and problem-solving ability in complex technical and organisational contexts.\nDesirable:\nExperience designing and scaling cloud-based solutions, preferably on GCP.\nStrong understanding of microservices, containerisation, and orchestration platforms.\nExperience scaling low-latency, high-availability systems.\nFamiliarity with optimisation techniques such as linear programming, constraint optimisation, evolutionary algorithms, or ML-based methods.\nUnderstanding of practical AI model delivery challenges, including data quality, scalability, monitoring, and maintenance.\nAdditional Information\nWhen 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.\nCheck out a few of these resources to learn more about what makes Epsilon so EPIC:\nOur Culture: https://www.epsilon.com/us/about-us/our-culture-epsilon\nLife at Epsilon: https://www.epsilon.com/us/about-us/epic-blog\nEpsilon has five values that define our culture and guide us as we create value for our clients, our people and consumers. We seek candidates who align with our company values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work:\nAct with integrity. We are transparent and have the courage to do the right thing.\nWork together to win together. We believe collaboration is the catalyst that unlocks our full potential.\nInnovate with purpose. We shape the market with big ideas that drive big outcomes.\nRespect all voices. We embrace differences and foster a culture of connection and belonging.\nEmpower with accountability. We trust each other to own and deliver on common goals.\nBecause You Matter\nAs an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you and your wellbeing first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to the following:\nTime to recharge: Additional 5 days annual leave each year after 2 years\nFamily Wellbeing: Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks paid primary carer leave and generous secondary carer benefits based on service Plus additional 5 days paid carer leave to care for your little ones without having dip into your personal leave\nWork Your World program: enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year. \nRewards and recognition: Shop our rewards store front when you receive points\n Extra Perks: Hybrid work arrangements, Gym memberships, Learning & Development opportunities, Employee wellbeing programs (all-in-one psychological, medical & safety needs)\n*Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms. \nIf you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity, rather than ticking boxes - so if this role resonates with you, please apply.\nDiversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words, these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people; regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate in. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions.\nUniqueness is powerful; without it we wouldn’t be where we are today. 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