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About the Role

Our Commerce & Technology division helps leading global brands deliver digital experiences. As clients transition from AI experimentation to production-grade, autonomous agentic platforms, we are seeking a Principal Technical Architect. You will serve as the senior technical authority on our AWS and cloud engagements, owning the design and quality of robust, scalable applications.

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

Location

• 40+ markets

Work Type

• Permanent

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

• WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on.
• We lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution.
• Our 12,000 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.
• WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
• With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships – all united by our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
• 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.
• And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

Equal Opportunity

• WPP (VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without 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.