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:
WPP is a creative transformation company, helping clients create growth by combining technology and creativity. As one of the world's largest marketing and advertising services organizations, we are committed to driving innovation and operational excellence across our vast global network.
You will be joining the Automation Operations Centre within WPP's Enterprise Technology, Automation & AI department. This is a pivotal time for us as we're building a dedicated, in-house team to deliver, manage, monitor, and optimize our growing portfolio of automation solutions. This team is at the forefront of our digital transformation, ensuring the seamless operation and continuous improvement of critical automation capabilities across WPP globally
You will play a crucial role in solution delivery and day-to-day technology management of the Global Automation Operations Centre (AOC) program. Reporting to the AAI Operations Director and AAI Product Lead, you will lead the architecture, standards, and advanced development requirements for our global automation portfolio. Alongside AAI Leadership, you will guide a crew of 6-10 developers to ensure the release of high-quality automation products on time and within budget.
The AOC is chartered to develop and delivery automation products, support global automation products or projects delivered by Automation delivery teams from around WPP. Our support apparatus gives those teams confidence and freedom to hand over their existing successes and continue innovating.
Are you a visionary technical leader with a deep mastery of the Microsoft Power Platform and a passion for engineering excellence? We are looking for an Automation Engineering Lead to drive our technical strategy and architectural standards. In this senior role, you will be responsible for conducting research spikes, providing technical guidance to development teams, and ensuring that our global automation suite is built on a foundation of robust, scalable, and maintainable components. You will combine your extensive experience from the D365/Dataverse era with modern ALM practices to keep our global operations at the cutting edge of AI and automation.
What you'll be doing:
Automation Engineering Lead (Engineering Excellence + AI-Driven Automation)
We are looking for an experienced Automation Engineering Lead who combines a complete view across multiple engineering technology streams with a strong background in automation and AI-driven engineering practices across modern technology stacks.
This is not a single-stack or platform-specific role.
You will act as an enterprise engineering leader, responsible for designing scalable, high-performance solutions by evaluating the right engineering approach across diverse technology streams spanning APIs, backend services, modern frontends, cloud platforms, deployment architecture, and AI/ML capabilities.
You will play a critical role in shaping engineering strategy, establishing end-to-end engineering processes, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring solutions are fit-for-purpose, scalable, and future-ready.
What You’ll Be Doing
Solution Architecture & Technology Decisioning
- Own end-to-end architecture for automation use cases across the enterprise
- Evaluate and recommend the right approach across:
- Cloud-native engineering (microservices, serverless, container platforms)
- Custom engineering (APIs, backend services, UI frameworks)
- AI-augmented automation combining ML services, LLMs, and intelligent workflows
- Make informed trade-offs between build vs buy, custom vs platform, and AI-driven vs deterministic approaches based on scalability, cost, and maintainability
- Act as a key decision-maker on the right technology stream and tooling for each engineering problem
- Knowledge in Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse)
Architectural Governance
- Define and enforce global architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Establish reusable engineering frameworks and AI-driven automation accelerators across teams
- Ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across implementations
Technical Leadership
- Lead and mentor a team of 6–10 engineers
- Provide hands-on guidance, solution reviews, and architectural oversight
- Drive engineering excellence and a culture of continuous improvement
Advanced & Hybrid Development
- Lead complex implementations involving:
- Custom connectors and API integrations
- AI/ML model integration and intelligent automation patterns
- Backend services (.NET / Java / Node.js / Python) where required
- Handle research spikes and evaluate new tools, frameworks, and capabilities
Integration & Data Architecture
- Design robust integration solutions using:
- REST APIs, webhooks, and service-based architectures
- Event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns
- Work with structured and unstructured data across:
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