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Publicis Groupe

Runs advertising and digital transformation services

Vice President, Enterprise Transformation & Architecture

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/22/2026Deadline 9/24/27
$164.5k - $325k/yr+ Bonus or incentive compensation
Expert
Bachelor's
Chicago, IL, USA+2 moreMore locations: Wakefield, MA, USA | Irving, TX, USA
In Person
IT Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or business transformation.
  • At least 5 years of experience with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable enterprise applications.
  • Demonstrable experience integrating ERP, CRM, HRIS, Finance, Supply Chain, Customer, and operational platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of business process design, capability modeling, data architecture, APIs, integration patterns, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native solutions.
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure data services, lakehouse architectures, and enterprise integration platforms.
  • Experience leading complex, multi-functional transformation initiatives from strategy through implementation.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior collaborators and make clear, evidence-based architecture recommendations.
Responsibilities
  • Define end-to-end business solutions and transformation approaches aligned with business strategy, enterprise priorities, and process needs.
  • Drive automation and tooling decisions using established standards, reference architectures, governance, and industry standards.
  • Ensure technical solutions meet multi-functional business needs while remaining secure, scalable, reusable, supportable, and cost-effective.
  • Translate complex business challenges into pragmatic roadmaps, target-state architectures, and sequenced implementation plans.
  • Define target-state solution architectures aligned with enterprise strategy, operating model, process requirements, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Develop transformation roadmaps that modernize ERP-centric environments through cloud, data, integration, automation, and AI capabilities.
  • Lead solution definition across Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Customer Operations, and other enterprise domains.
  • Find opportunities to simplify processes, reduce technical debt, improve controls, and increase speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leadership on platform modernization, architectural trade-offs, and investment decisions.
  • Design scalable architectures using Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure data services, and AI platforms to access, integrate, and activate enterprise data.
  • Architect governed data flows across SAP, Salesforce, HRIS, financial, customer, operational, and transactional systems.
  • Define integration patterns using APIs, events, batch, streaming, data virtualization, and data products based on business and technical requirements.
  • Establish enterprise information models, semantic layers, metadata, lineage, data quality, and master data practices.
  • Drive lakehouse, analytics, and real-time data strategies that enable trusted self-service access without compromising security or governance.
  • Identify and prioritize high-value AI, machine learning, generative AI, agentic workflow, analytics, and intelligent automation opportunities.
  • Design reusable architectures for enterprise AI, process orchestration, knowledge access, decision support, and predictive insights.
  • Embed human oversight, security, privacy, responsible AI, model risk, and operational controls into solution designs.
  • Partner with business collaborators to define value cases, success measures, adoption plans, and scalable operating models.
  • Establish reference architectures, standards, design patterns, decision criteria, and implementation guardrails.
  • Lead architecture reviews and ensure alignment across application, data, integration, cloud, security, and AI domains.
  • Drive platform and tooling decisions based on interoperability, scalability, security, resiliency, supportability, reuse, and total cost of ownership.
  • Reduce duplication and complexity by promoting common services, shared data products, reusable integration patterns, and lifecycle management.
  • Maintain alignment among business capability maps, transformation roadmaps, delivery portfolios, and enterprise architecture direction.
  • Facilitate discovery sessions and process workshops that convert business needs into clear capability, data, integration, and technology requirements.
  • Collaborate with executives, business owners, enterprise architects, product leaders, engineers, data teams, security teams, and external partners.
  • Communicate complex architectures, dependencies, risks, options, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Provide architecture leadership from strategy and concept through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience designing enterprise AI, machine learning, generative AI, or agent-based solutions.
  • Knowledge of SAP business processes and S/4HANA, Salesforce architecture, and HRIS ecosystems.
  • Experience with master data management, metadata management, data governance, data quality, and semantic modeling.
  • Familiarity with Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot technologies, and modern agent frameworks.
  • Experience operating in a large, global, matrixed enterprise environment.
  • Relevant certifications in Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, TOGAF, SAP, or related disciplines.

About the company

Publicis Groupe runs advertising, media buying and digital transformation services for companies that want to reach consumers, coordinate campaigns and improve their business systems. Its agency network includes creative and media specialists, while Publicis Sapient builds and modernizes the technology behind clients' operations. Epsilon adds customer data and marketing technology that connect brands with audiences and measure campaign results. Clients pay for consulting, campaign creation and execution, with production and media costs billed through alongside the group's service work. Founded in 1926, Publicis Groupe is headquartered in Paris, France.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

1926

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Growth is holding up: July 2026 results showed 4.7% organic net revenue growth in the first half.
  • Data work is expanding: Publicis agreed in May 2026 to buy LiveRamp and its data collaboration business.
  • International experience has a formal route: WorkYourWorld gives approved Publicis employees up to six weeks abroad annually.

What critics are saying

  • Accounts are vulnerable: Publicis' top 100 clients generated 58% of 2025 revenue, with short-notice contract exits.
  • Employees face continuing reorganization: July 2026 results reported €76 million restructuring costs, up from €63 million.
  • Expansion adds interest costs: September 2026 LiveRamp financing priced €500 million of bonds with a 4.125% coupon.

What makes Publicis Groupe unique

  • Agency collaboration has financial backing: Publicis unifies profit accounts and gives each global client one accountable leader.
  • Epsilon connects ads to purchases: its CORE ID uses transaction data rather than third-party cookies.
  • Leadership continuity is unusual: Arthur Sadoun is only Publicis Groupe's third CEO.

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  • Remote Work Options
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Training Programs

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May 17th, 2026
Publicis to acquire LiveRamp for $2.2B to accelerate data co-creation for AI agents

Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire LiveRamp, a global data collaboration platform, for $2.2 billion in an all-cash transaction at $38.50 per share, representing a 29.8% premium to LiveRamp's closing price on 15 May 2026. LiveRamp connects over 25,000 publisher domains and 500+ technology partners across 14 markets, enabling brands, retailers and media platforms to unify and activate data securely. The company has 1,300 employees and delivered a trailing five-year compound annual growth rate of 13%. The acquisition will position Publicis as a leader in data co-creation, enabling clients to build more intelligent AI agents by combining multiple data sources securely. Publicis has raised its 2027-2028 growth objectives to 7-8% for net revenue and 8-10% for headline earnings per share. The transaction is expected to close before year-end 2026, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals.

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Mayo-born entrepreneur Niall McGarry has sold Fabric Social to Publicis Groupe UK, a division of the world's largest communications group. The company reported revenues of £13 million (€14.9 million) in the 12 months to March 2026 and employed 110 people at the time of sale. Fabric Social was profitable and served blue-chip clients in Britain including Sky, Subway EMEA, Currys, Morrisons, Just Eat, Autotrader, Holland & Barrett and Vodafone. The company also operated a smaller Irish business as a retained social agency. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Publicis Groupe has acquired sports marketing agency 160over90 from WME Group for an undisclosed sum, positioning sports as its "next big bet" for growth. The deal is pending regulatory approval. Founded in 2001, 160over90 employs over 670 people across the US, UK, EMEA and APAC, working with global brands on major sporting events including the Super Bowl, Olympics and World Cup. The agency will join Publicis Sports, led by CEO Suzy Deering. Publicis is forming a partnership with WME to enable collaborations between its agencies and WME's talent roster. The acquisition follows Publicis' purchases of sports agencies Adopt and Bespoke in 2025 and creator marketing agency Influential in 2024. Publicis reported $17.18 billion in net revenue in 2025, up 5.6% year-on-year.