Cloud Platform Architect

**WPP is the 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 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations - from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100.**

**WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.**

**WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world's largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world's most creative brands.**

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**Why we're hiring**:
The cloud will deliver transformative value to WPP and its Operating Companies by creating outstanding services for customers that both delight and enhance the experience for clients and colleagues. The CloudHub is a new centralised cloud engineering, solution architecture and operations team that will simplify, secure and accelerate the use of cloud at WPP by creating fantastic products, making cloud easy and keeping everyone safe.

The Cloud Platform Architect is a critical role for the success of developing Cloud platform capability.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Provide regional Cloud Platform development capability.
- Develop Cloud platform services that Cloud Solution Architects can use as part of designs.
- Anticipate and derive platform requirements through consultation with Cloud Architecture community
- Support Cloud Platform Engineers in their definition of the implementation detail
- Ensure platform solutions are aligned with Cloud provider and WPP architectural best practice.
- Author and maintain high-level design documentation.
- Capture and address functional and non-functional requirements.
- Contribute to development of WPP-specific best practices for solutions design.
- Participate in Technical Design Authority board as both reviewer and presenter of designs.

**What you'll need**:

- Translating requirements into technology architecture
- Enterprise empathy and active listening
- Relationship building
- High-quality professional writing: ability to produce fluent, concise, and - critically - unambiguously written documentation.

**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 accepting: of 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 promote a culture of people that 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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