Principal Technical Architect

• Technical Leadership & Governance: 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.
• Agentic AI & Commerce Innovation: 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).
• Client Engagement & Account Growth: 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.
• Hands-on Engineering & Delivery: 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.
• Capability Building: Mentor engineers and architects, share knowledge on emerging technologies, and raise the overall technical bar across the account and practice.

• Leadership & Consulting: Senior/Principal architect with experience in digital agencies or consultancies, skilled at leading development teams, guiding clients through workshops, and identifying business growth opportunities.
• AWS & Serverless Architecture: Deep hands-on expertise in designing, documenting, and delivering resilient, high-availability enterprise applications on AWS (including serverless patterns and appropriate integration components).
• Agentic AI & Commerce: Strong understanding of building agentic AI platforms on AWS (eg, Bedrock, orchestrations, RAG, gateways/MCP) and awareness of emerging Agentic Commerce concepts and standards (ACP, AP2, A2A).
• Software Engineering & API Design: Strong development background (ideally TypeScript/JavaScript) coupled with robust API design, documentation, and versioning experience.
• DevOps & Quality Automation: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and a strict quality-first mindset (unit testing, automated tooling).
• Communication & Collaboration: Proactive, energetic 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 (eg, Security, Data/ML)

Familiarity with:

• The C4 model
• Diagrams-as-code
• DevOps practices
• Headless architectures
• Practical application of LLMs within enterprises

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. “, “industry”: “IT”, “baseSalary”: {“@type”: “MonetaryAmount”, “currency”: “GBP”, “value”: {“@type”: “QuantitativeValue”, “value”: “”}}, “identifier”: {“@type”: “PropertyValue”, “name”: “[[BRANDNAME]]”, “value”: “[[IDENTIFIER]]”}, “datePosted”: “2026-08-18T16:31+00:00”, “validThrough”: “2026-09-01T16:31+00:00”, “hiringOrganization”: {“@type”: “Organization”, “name”: “WPP Enterprise Solutions”, “logo”: “https://cjassets-fabkerfbaaayfhdm.z02.azurefd.net/images/jobbranding/570807590964/images/570807590964_detail.jpg”}, “jobLocation”: {“@type”: “Place”, “address”: {“@type”: “PostalAddress”, “addressRegion”: “England”, “addressLocality”: “London”, “addressCountry”: “United Kingdom”}, “geo”: {“@type”: “GeoCoordinates”, “latitude”: “51.512”, “longitude”: “-0.065”}}, “url”