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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # VP, Engineering (Campaign Management) - **Company:** WPP Media - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Software Design Documents, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Tools, Software Engineering, Technical Debt, Microservices - **Published:** September 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840601202-vp-engineering-campaign-management ## About the Role This position is a hands-on engineering leadership role. Internally, the role is accountable for the successful technical delivery of many products within the Activation product area, entailing hands-on architecture and guidance for the implementation of our data platforms. Externally, the role is the engineering face of Activation, entailing senior stakeholder relationship management, product positioning and customer adoption. The role demands a balance of: deep technical expertise, senior leadership, knowledge of the Advertising industry, and preferably, a knowledge of, and relationships within, the WPP Media network., * Overseeing complex technical delivery of software and big data platforms. * Liaising with senior stakeholders - both internally and externally. * Building, developing and leading a large team of engineers - ideally including offshore & onshore resources. * Operating in the software development stack (Python, Django, microservices) * Designing and managing successful delivery of cloud native applications at scale. * Managing the SDLC for large scale projects. * An experienced leader. * A highly experienced software architect. * Proficient in one of our core programming languages (Python, Java). * Working knowledge of GCP based Big Data * Highly experienced in the development workflow. * Highly detail oriented. * Focused on delivery., * Have used GCP extensively. * Have experience within the WPP network and have established relationships. * Have domain knowledge of online advertising ## Description * You will oversee, and be accountable for, the technical implementation of our Activation products, ensuring that our end-to-end architecture both scales and evolves in line with the use cases they support. * You will work very closely with the VP Product for the Activation product area to ensure our systems are fit for purpose through a nuanced understanding of the business context and the factors that drive the product life cycle. * You will co-define (with the VP Product) the objectives and key results within the Activation product area and ensure that all staff in this product area are aligned to these objectives. * You will work closely with the VP Engineering & VP Product leads across the other product areas in the business to ensure cohesion (through application topology awareness) between our systems and that our collective delivery delivers against Choreograph's business objectives. * You will provide guidance, rooted in experience, for engineering best practice across our product areas. * You will occasionally provide designs and solutions for critical projects that allow the development teams to deliver software on time and to agreed functional and non-functional specifications. * You will regularly provide technical leadership in order to make sure that the designs are implemented using appropriate tools and techniques. * You will influence the management of technical debt across projects; making the right calls between balancing pragmatic delivery and compromising implementation patterns. * You will help guard our central SRE practice and ensure adoption within the Activation product area. * You will drive innovation; coaching engineers to experiment and choose appropriate technologies to fit into our ecosystem - this requires you to be an expert authority on data architecture & engineering tools, techniques and patterns. * You will stay on top of data cloud costs accrued in our projects and prioritise optimisations when costs exceed expectations. * You will be the senior contact/escalation point for engineering people issues in the Activation product area, including defining roles, hiring and working with operational leads to effectively onboard new team members. * You will engage with RFI processes during new customer engagements, provide a technical steer, high level estimations and produce design documents., * Modern software architecture. * Operational tooling surrounding the software development lifecycle IaC, CI/CS. * Microservice architecture patterns (modern data platforms stretch beyond data engineering). * API implementation patterns and interfaces. * How the advertising works and are familiar with the typical datasets. * How machine learning works at a high level. ## Related Videos - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/602-unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-it-at-vodafone) - [Resolving technical debts in software architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1680-resolving-technical-debts-in-software-architecture) - [Microservices: how to get started with Spring Boot and Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/242-microservices-how-to-get-started-with-spring-boot-and-kubernetes) - [Your Code as a Crime Scene](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1342-your-code-as-a-crime-scene) - [Cloud Chaos and Microservices Mayhem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/104-cloud-chaos-and-microservices-mayhem) ## Related Articles - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [The Prompt Engineer ✍️](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/216-the-prompt-engineer) - [Why and How to Sponsor Developer Events](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/686-why-and-how-to-sponsor-developer-events) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)