Solutions Architect
AI summary of the role
WPP is hiring a Solutions Architect to design end-to-end technical solutions for large-scale enterprise applications, partnering with product and engineering teams.
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What you’ll do
- Design, prototype, and review core services and integrations using Java.
- Architect and guide development of large-scale enterprise applications ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Translate business requirements into solution architectures, technical specifications, and implementation plans.
- Define and evangelize architecture standards, patterns, and best practices (e.g., microservices, API-first design).
What you’ll bring
- Strong proficiency in Java and the JVM ecosystem (e.g., Spring/Spring Boot).
- Demonstrated experience developing and supporting large enterprise applications with high availability.
- Experience producing architecture artifacts (solution diagrams, interface contracts, sequence diagrams).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (concurrency, caching, eventual consistency, resiliency).
Technologies
Java · Spring Boot · RESTful APIs · SQL · NoSQL · MongoDB · Couchbase · Docker · Kubernetes · Okta
About WPP
Public marketing-services holding company unifying creative, media, production, and enterprise services around WPP Open for global brands.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
end-to-end technical solutions that align business goals with scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures. This role partners with product, engineering, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs, guide implementation, and ensure high-quality delivery across complex enterprise environments. What you'll be doing: Demonstrate strong Java proficiency to design, prototype, and review core services and integrations. Architect and guide the development of large-scale enterprise applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability. Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into solution architectures, technical specifications, and implementation plans. Define and evangelize architecture standards, patterns, and best practices (e.g., layered architectures, microservices where appropriate, API-first design).
More from the job description
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. 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. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: A Solutions Architect designs end-to-end technical solutions that align business goals with scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures. This role partners with product, engineering, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs, guide implementation, and ensure high-quality delivery across complex enterprise environments. What you'll be doing: Demonstrate strong Java proficiency to design, prototype, and review core services and integrations. Architect and guide the development of large-scale enterprise ap [... source excerpt omitted ...] data synchronization. Evaluate and recommend technology choices, frameworks, and third-party components; perform trade-off analyses and document decisions. Ensure non-functional requirements are met, including security, scalability, observability (logging/metrics/tracing), resilience, and disaster recovery. Collaborate with DevOps/SRE to support CI/CD pipelines, deployment architecture, and operational readiness. Lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, and provide technical guidance through delivery and post-release support. Identify technical risks and dependencies early; propose mitigation plans and drive resolution with stakeholders. What you'll need: Strong [... source excerpt omitted ...] e features from start to finish, including testing, with empathy for the end-user experience. Participate in a constructive and inclusive culture of peer code reviews. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and cloud-native architectures. Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Familiarity with messaging and event-driven design. Experience with identity and access management, application security, and threat modeling. Experience with observability tooling and practices (APM, centralized logging, distributed tracing). Experience with the Office 365 ecosystem. Experience with Okta and/or other single sign-on (SS
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