Enterprise Architect – Modern Workplace

Why we're hiring:

About WPP ET    WPP Enterprise Technology provides Technology 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 ET is an integral part of that journey, and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.

Own the end-to-end target architecture for the entire Modern Workplace estate, spanning all four towers — Identity, Client Devices, Productivity Tools and Office Technology. This role provides the strategic, cross-tower technical coherence that cannot be outsourced: it sets the standards, patterns and guardrails that Kyndryl and the tower teams design, build and operate within, and ensures the workplace is secure, integrated, modern and future-ready as one connected employee experience.

What you'll be doing:

•    Define and own the target-state architecture for the whole Modern Workplace estate across Identity, Client Devices, Productivity Tools and Office Technology.
•    Set cross-tower architecture principles, standards, reference patterns and technology roadmaps.
•    Act as the design authority for all major and cross-tower workplace change.
•    Architect the integration across towers — identity-led security, devices, collaboration and meeting-room/voice services — into one coherent, seamless employee experience.
•    Embed security-by-design, zero-trust, resilience, accessibility, data protection and total cost of ownership across every domain.
•    Assure that Kyndryl-delivered designs and changes align to WPP architecture and standards across all four towers.
•    Own the workplace technology strategy, build-vs-buy decisions and horizon-scanning for emerging capability, including AI in the workplace.
•    Advise the Modern Workplace Director and all tower heads, aligning the architecture to WPP business and agency priorities.
•    Set the architecture, patterns and guardrails that Kyndryl implements and operates within.
•    Assure that partner-delivered designs and changes meet WPP security, resilience and standards.
•    Act as design authority and approval gate for partner architecture decisions.

What you'll need:

•    Enterprise architecture spanning the full digital-workplace estate — identity, device/endpoint, collaboration & productivity, and office/meeting-room & voice technologies.
•    Proven cross-domain architecture leadership across an end-to-end workplace estate at global scale.
•    Architecture frameworks and modelling (e.g. TOGAF) applied pragmatically.
•    Security-by-design, zero-trust and data-protection architecture for the workplace.
•    Integration and platform architecture across cloud (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace), endpoint and identity ecosystems.
•    Strong communication and influence with engineering, vendor and executive audiences.
•    Recognised architecture experience in the relevant domain at enterprise scale.
•    Relevant architecture or platform certifications (e.g. TOGAF or vendor architect tracks).
•    Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.•    Sets the target architecture, standards and design patterns for the domain.
•    Designs for security, scale, resilience and total cost of ownership.
•    Influences engineering and vendor teams without direct authority.
•    Balances strategic ambition with pragmatic, deliverable decisions.
•    Stays current with platform direction and emerging capability.

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