At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead technical strategy for AWS co-sell opportunities and design innovative architectures.
- Company: Join VML, a top creative company known for its award-winning work with global brands.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a collaborative culture that values creativity and connection.
- Why this job: Make impactful architectural decisions that drive AWS alliance revenue and client success.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in technical pre-sales or solution architecture with deep AWS expertise.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
VML 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 award-winning human-first work for clients including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's.
WPP Enterprise Solutions is the enterprise technology and transformation capability of WPP, delivering data, AI, and modern applications for the world's leading brands. We partner with AWS to bring these capabilities to blue-chip clients.
The Opportunity: We are hiring the senior technical voice of our AWS alliance in EMEA. This is the person AWS field leadership and client architects turn to when a deal needs technical credibility, and the person who shapes how we win on AWS.
Role Summary: This is a principal-level technical pre-sales role. You are the senior technical authority for AWS co-sell across EMEA. You partner directly with Alliance Sales, Alliance Solution Leads, AWS Solutions Architects, and client engineering teams to win strategic pursuits.
What You Will Own:
- Technical leadership on strategic pursuits: serve as the senior technical partner on priority AWS co-sell opportunities.
- Reference architectures that become standards: design the architectures that anchor our joint AWS solutions.
- Proof that converts: scope and lead the proof-of-concept work that proves we can deliver.
- AWS field relationships: build trusted relationships with AWS Solutions Architects and ProServe.
- Technical direction for the alliance: advise our leadership and client leadership on AWS architecture strategy.
Technical Depth:
- Generative AI: Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, agentic and generative AI application patterns.
- Data & Analytics: Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), AWS Clean Rooms, data lakes, analytics pipelines.
- Customer Experience: Amazon Personalize, Amazon Connect, serverless architectures.
- Modern Applications: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, container orchestration.
- Integration: Event-driven architectures, microservices, API design.
How Success Looks:
- Technical win rate on the strategic pursuits you lead.
- Competitive deals turned in our favor by your technical credibility.
- Reference architectures adopted as reusable standards across the alliance.
- POC-to-production conversion on the engagements you shape.
- Strength of your working relationships with AWS field and specialist teams.
What You Bring:
- 5+ years in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting.
- Deep hands-on AWS expertise with a track record of delivered projects.
- A strong record leading demos and POCs that win competitive pursuits.
- Command of enterprise architecture patterns and the judgment to apply them.
Why This Role: You will be in the room for the technical decisions that win AWS deals. Your technical excellence directly drives AWS alliance revenue growth.
Principal Solutions Architect, Technology Sales Lead (AWS) employer: VML
At VML, we pride ourselves on being a leading creative company that fosters a vibrant work culture where innovation and collaboration thrive. As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to work with some of the world's most exciting brands while benefiting from our commitment to your professional growth and development. Our hybrid work model promotes flexibility, and our core values of Heart, Brains, and Courage ensure that every team member feels empowered to make a meaningful impact.
