Senior Technical Architect
Job Summary
WPP Enterprise Solutions designs builds and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12000 experts in engineering and platforms commerce consulting content transformation CRM and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40 markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe AWS Braze Google Microsoft Salesforce and Shopify as well as innovators in AI to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients businesses. VML part of WPP supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.
Our Commerce & Technology division helps leading global brands deliver digital experiences. As clients transition from AI experimentation to production-grade autonomous agentic platforms (systems that plan reason act and transact) we are seeking a Principal Technical Architect. Serving as the senior technical authority on our AWS and cloud engagements you will own the design and quality of robust scalable applications.
In this outward-facing energetic leadership role you will architect enterprise-grade cloud applications with a strong focus on agentic AI platform componentsincluding orchestration memory tool integration identity guardrails and observabilityas well as emerging Agentic Commerce. Alongside driving technical strategy you will actively partner with clients lead dynamic workshops participate in governance and collaborate with commercial teams to identify and shape new growth opportunities. Balancing strategic vision with hands-on delivery you will stay close to the code prove technical solutions through rigorous code reviews and mentor engineering teams to establish a high bar for quality automation and operational best practices.
- Technical Leadership & Governance:Act as the accounts senior authority on complex cloud architectures (esp. AWS serverless). Establish technical governance design standards and manage risk non-functional requirements (NFRs) and technical debt.
- Agentic AI & Commerce Innovation:Design AWS-based agentic AI platforms (orchestration RAG memory guardrails and MCP). Establish reusable patterns and advise clients on emerging Agentic Commerce standards (ACP AP2 A2A and secure payment models).
- Client Engagement & Account Growth:Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders translate complex concepts and facilitate technical discovery workshops. Proactively identify shape and pitch technical solutions to drive account growth.
- Hands-on Engineering & Delivery:Provide hands-on technical ownership by proving solutions reviewing code and designing robust API/integration patterns. Champion a quality-first mindset using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) CI/CD and automation.
- Capability Building:Mentor engineers and architects share knowledge on emerging technologies and raise the overall technical bar across the account and practice.
- Leadership & Consulting:Senior/Principal architect with experience in digital agencies or consultancies skilled at leading development teams guiding clients through workshops and identifying business growth opportunities.
- AWS & Serverless Architecture:Deep hands-on expertise in designing documenting and delivering resilient high-availability enterprise applications on AWS (including serverless patterns and appropriate integration components).
- Agentic AI & Commerce:Strong understanding of building agentic AI platforms on AWS (e.g. Bedrock orchestrations RAG gateways/MCP) and awareness of emerging Agentic Commerce concepts and standards (ACP AP2 A2A).
- Software Engineering & API Design:Strong development background (ideally TypeScript/JavaScript) coupled with robust API design documentation and versioning experience.
- DevOps & Quality Automation:Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation) CI/CD pipelines and a strict quality-first mindset (unit testing automated tooling).
- Communication & Collaboration:Proactive energetic collaborator with excellent written verbal and diagrammatic skills capable of translating complex technical concepts for senior stakeholders.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional(or Associate as a minimum)
- AWS Specialty certifications(e.g. Security Data/ML)
- Familiarity with:
- The C4 model
- Diagrams-as-code
- DevOps practices
- Headless architectures
- Practical application of LLMs within enterprises
You will collaborate with our UK project team so well need you to be available until 18:00 PL
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world well also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. Well empower you to make a difference allow you to be yourself and respect who you are.
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