Job description
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore.
WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.
Our people are the key to our success. We’re committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
Why we’re hiring:
WPP is at the forefront of the marketing and advertising industry’s largest transformation. Our Global CIO is leading a significant evolution of our Enterprise Technology capabilities, bringing together over 2,500 technology professionals into an integrated global team. This team will play a crucial role in enabling the ongoing transformation of our agencies and functions.
WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything our solutions span the ecosystem to connect with audiences anywhere. We offer the industry’s most advanced platform for scaled and integrated creative, production, data, commerce, and personalized media delivery services. We enable brands to unify media, data, and production while holistically managing their owned, earned, shared, and paid activities. All backed by our best-in-class connected commerce, measurement and analytics capabilities.
Your role is the architect to bring these worlds together, enabling WPP Media to be relentlessly client and data focused, underpinned by common enterprise technologies that run the business globally, simplifying the way we operate and enabling more dynamic, considered decision-making.
What you’ll be doing:
- Define relevant standard business architecture templates (e.g., methods, models, blueprints, etc.)
- Collaborate with senior business leaders to determine Media business capabilities
- Collaborate with senior leaders to determine relevant Media application needs
- Architect & maintain enterprise media business capability models (BCMs) & roadmaps
- Architect & maintain enterprise media application architecture models and roadmaps
- Manage media architecture compliance of new projects based on WPP standards
- Monitor, evaluate and communicate Media business and technology trends
- Monitor, evaluate and communicate media Agencies application trends
- Advise and support media related platforms, products & projects across the relevant lifecycle stage (e.g., Plan, Analyse, Design, Build, Test, Evolve)
- Preventing the markets from introducing non-standard WPP technology whilst providing an alternative that does comply with standards
- Re-architect Client and/or Product Tech emerging from Operating model changes
- Architect the Transition of products from WPP Media to WPP ET and vice versa as part of the integration into the One WPP Model
Key 2026 Priorities:
- Establish trusted business advisory relationships with WPP Media stakeholders
- Document Business Capability Models, Process Maps & Roadmaps for the media clusters
- Align Business Capabilities with relevant Application, Data, Technology and Security Architectures
- Discover and maintain data related to the media technology asset portfolio (e.g., applications, data, security & infrastructure)
- Define the future state media technology asset portfolio (e.g., applications, data, security & infrastructure)
- Focus on WPP ET goals that require architecting to align WPP Media to the rest of WPP ET, particularly in the area of AI capabilities
What you’ll need:
- Extensive experience with Enterprise Architecture (e.g., TOGAF®) and/or credentials
- Extensive experience with Business Architecture and/or credentials
- Extensive experience in Business Capability Modeling & Road-mapping
- Extensive experience in Business Process Modeling & Value Stream Analysis
- Extensive experience in Business Requirements gathering
- Extensive Experience of Media Production tools.
- Extensive Experience of Key technology development with Public Cloud, including DevOps
- Extensive workflow/business process design experience in Media businesses
- Working knowledge of modern application platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Workday)
- Understanding of Data modelling and application and data integration patterns and technologies
- Understanding of modern technologies (e.g., Cloud Computing, Identity Asset Management, etc.)
- Understanding on AI , key products in the marketing space
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal & stakeholder management skills
- Exceptional remote working collaboration skills using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
- Superb negotiation skills
- Strong oral, presentation, and written communication skills
Who you are:
You’re open : We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You’re optimistic : We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we’ll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular 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.
