WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do.  It is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. As WPP implements its Cloud-first strategy, it needs to both modernise existing applications to make use of Cloud technologies and also help developers adopt Cloud technologies in the design of new applications. 

What you'll be doing:

  • Produce high-level technical designs for workloads built on Cloud platforms.
  • Be the customer-facing contact for all technical aspects of a project engagement.
  • Provide technical leadership in the presence of ambiguity throughout project engagements
  • Understand the 'why' (are we doing this?) of a project. Own the 'what' (will we build?) of a project. Support the 'how' (will we build it?) via Cloud Engineering teams.
  • Build and run Proof-of-Concepts to test the value of a technical solution.
  • Act as an SME for all aspects of adopting Cloud, particularly the topics of scaling, security and identity integration.
  • Ensure solutions are aligned with Cloud provider and WPP architectural best practice.
  • Author high-level design documentation.
  • Capture and address functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Guiding implementation teams up to Go-Live.
  • Contribute to development of WPP-specific best practices for solutions design.
  • Participate in Technical Design Authority board as both reviewer and presenter of project solutions.
  • Engage with development teams to demonstrate the benefits of adopting Cloud components in their application designs.

What you'll need:

  • Experience translating business requirements into technology architecture
  • Working in the architectural abstract, but quickly applying principles to a specific technology domain and working with SMEs when project success requires it.
  • Strong enterprise empathy and active listening
  • Exceptional relationship building
  • Skilled to high-quality professional writing: ability to produce fluent, concise, and - critically - unambiguously written documentation.
  • Understanding typical application architectures (n-tier, monolithic, microservices, event-driven) and underlying technologies (containers, VMs, web platforms)
  • Continuous learning. Cloud services from the big three providers are launched or have features added at least weekly.
  • Experienced in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
  • GCP experience is highly desirable. 

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wpp.com/people/wpp-privacy-policy-for-recruitment) for more information on how we process the information you provide.

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