Who We Are
WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al 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. 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.
The Opportunity
A Solution Architect is required for a high-profile role giving the successful applicant the chance to lead the solution architecture for some of the world’s largest online brands and retailers and be an integral part of our talented and expanding Solution Architecture team. You will be responsible for creating and assuring solution architecture using a wide range of technologies, from SaaS eCommerce platforms through to client-specific cloud solutions. You’ll develop relationships with key client-side stakeholders in charge of IT and digital strategy and architecture, and you’ll work closely with our internal delivery teams to ensure your architecture vision is realised. Our Solution Architecture team not only focus on delivery but also work with our clients in delivering the best consulting advice to ensure world class solutions that enable our clients to transact more digitally.
What you’ll be doing:
- Working on large-scale digital transformation programmes with global clients, designing solutions for all the opportunity and complexity this brings.
- Own the solution architecture, document it, and communicate that architecture to a wide range of audiences.
- See out and develop relationships with key client stakeholders responsible for digital and architecture strategy.
- Orchestrate and run design workshops, and translate business strategy and requirements into solution architecture.
- Ensure your architecture vision is realised by our teams, across all phases of programme delivery.
- Understand common problems, design patterns and considerations for a distributed eCommerce architecture and apply this knowledge to your solutions.
- Understand the level at which solution architecture applies, and help transition your solutions to application and cloud architects and technical leads.
- Make and justify key architectural decisions considering all relevant constraints.
- Follow the principles and guidance set out by the Solution Architecture team.
- Contribute to the initiatives of our Solution Architecture team, including developing common patterns for new technologies and developing PoCs against industry trends.
About VML Enterprise Solutions
Welcome to VML Enterprise Solutions, a multi-award-winning powerhouse of innovation, creativity and growth through technology in an ever-evolving world. Over 7,000 employees across VML’s global offices support VML Enterprise Solutions by helping to create and deliver digital transformations, Artificial Intelligence applications and technology solutions that introduce new operational efficiencies to organisations around the world. Our mission is to inspire global audiences to embrace and advance the world of online and offline shopping through seamless digital experiences and tech innovation. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $56.5bn annually for our clients.
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. 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.
What we want from you:
- Core understanding of the capabilities of a wide range of technologies typically found within an eCommerce landscape, including enterprise eCommerce platforms and components, and apply this knowledge to your solutions.
- Proven experience of solution ownership.
- Experience delivering solution transformations, roadmaps and (or) Integration strategies.
- Understand the capabilities of public cloud platforms and be an advocate of cloud-native solutions.
- Proven experience Designing quality solutions, often large scale and transactional in nature, for global enterprise clients.
- Be client and delivery focussed, able to adapt a solution to meet additional requirements and constraints and apply pragmatism when required.
- Prior experience running design workshops.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Have excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills.
If you know some of this, even better:
- Experience with OMS.
- Experience with PIM.
- Specific Solution Architecture experience with the following technologies: React, Next.js, GraphQL (incl. federated), Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Sanity.io, GCP.
