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About the Role

Serve as the senior technical authority on our AWS and cloud engagements, owning the design and quality of robust, scalable applications. Architect agentic solutions, lead clients, drive growth, and provide hands-on delivery and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise cloud applications, specializing in agentic AI platform components (orchestration, memory, tool integration, identity, guardrails, observability) and emerging Agentic Commerce.
• Serve as an outward-facing, energetic leader who runs workshops, participates in governance, and collaborates with commercial teams to identify and shape technical growth opportunities.
• Remain close to the detail by proving solutions, reviewing code, and mentoring engineering teams to set a high bar for quality, automation, and best practices.
• Act as the account's senior authority on complex cloud architectures (esp. AWS serverless).
• Establish technical governance, design standards, and manage risk, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and technical debt.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Mentor engineers and architects, share knowledge on emerging technologies, and raise the overall technical bar across the account and practice.

Requirements

• Senior/Principal architect with experience in digital agencies or consultancies, skilled at leading development teams, guiding clients through workshops, and identifying business growth opportunities.
• Deep hands-on expertise in designing, documenting, and delivering resilient, high-availability enterprise applications on AWS (including serverless patterns and appropriate integration components).
• 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).
• Strong development background (ideally TypeScript/JavaScript) coupled with robust API design, documentation, and versioning experience.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and a strict quality-first mindset (unit testing, automated tooling).
• Proactive, energetic collaborator with excellent written, verbal, and diagrammatic skills capable of translating complex technical concepts for senior stakeholders.

Skills

• AWS serverless
• Agentic AI platforms
• Agentic Commerce
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• API design
• API documentation
• API versioning
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
• CI/CD
• Automation
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• AWS Specialty certifications
• C4 model
• Diagrams-as-code
• DevOps practices
• Headless architectures
• Practical application of LLMs within enterprises

Location

• Kansas City
• New York
• Detroit
• London
• São Paulo
• Shanghai
• Singapore
• Sydney

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior
• Principal

Education Level

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (or Associate as a minimum)
• AWS Specialty certifications (e.g., Security, Data/ML)

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Training opportunities
• Competitive pension
• Medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Social events
• Opportunities to buy and sell holidays
• Family friendly policies
• Discounts with hundreds of retailers

About the Company

• VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth.
• VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's.
• The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization.
• VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies.
• VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets.
• WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
• WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
• Our Commerce & Technology division helps leading global brands deliver digital experiences.
• Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.
• We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
• We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
• We champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
• VML is a WPP agency (NYSE: WPP).

Equal Opportunity

• WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
• We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.