Senior Technical Architect

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where AI is reshaping how companies drive growth, 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.

The opportunity: 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. Serving as the senior technical authority on our AWS and cloud engagements, you will own the design and quality of robust, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect Agentic Solutions: Design enterprise cloud applications, specializing in agentic AI platform components and emerging Agentic Commerce.
• Lead Clients & Drive Growth: Serve as an outward-facing leader who runs workshops, participates in governance, and collaborates with commercial teams to identify and shape technical growth opportunities.
• Hands-on Delivery & Mentorship: 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.

What you’ll be doing

• Technical Leadership & Governance: Act as the account's senior authority on complex cloud architectures. Establish technical governance, design standards, and manage risk, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.
• Agentic AI & Commerce Innovation: Design AWS-based agentic AI platforms and establish reusable patterns while advising clients on emerging Agentic Commerce standards.
• Client Engagement & Account Growth: Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, translate complex concepts, and facilitate technical discovery workshops.
• Hands-on Engineering & Delivery: Provide hands-on technical ownership by proving solutions, reviewing code, and designing robust API/integration patterns.
• Capability Building: Mentor engineers and architects, share knowledge on emerging technologies, and raise the overall technical bar across the account and practice.

What we want from you

• Leadership & Consulting: Senior/Principal architect with experience in digital agencies or consultancies, skilled at leading development teams and guiding clients through workshops.
• AWS & Serverless Architecture: Deep hands-on expertise in designing, documenting, and delivering resilient, high-availability enterprise applications on AWS.
• Agentic AI & Commerce: Strong understanding of building agentic AI platforms on AWS and awareness of emerging Agentic Commerce concepts and standards.
• DevOps & Quality Automation: Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and a strict quality-first mindset.
• Communication & Collaboration: Proactive collaborator with excellent written, verbal, and diagrammatic skills capable of translating complex technical concepts for senior stakeholders.

If you know some of this, even better:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (or Associate as a minimum)
• AWS Specialty certifications
• Familiarity with the C4 model, Diagrams-as-code, DevOps practices, Headless architectures, Practical application of LLMs within enterprises.

What we can offer you: Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

Permanent only: We offer a great benefits package including a 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 and much more.

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.

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About WPP: WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships, we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.