AI Enterprise Architect – WPP Media

Overview

As Enterprise Architect for WPP Media, you will unify business capabilities, data, and technology to enable the One WPP model. You’ll shape BCMs, roadmaps and application architectures to support global media operations and AI-driven capabilities. You’ll partner with senior leaders to ensure standardization, governance, and timely delivery across Plan–Evolve lifecycle stages. This role places you at the heart of a transformative, data-focused media organization with global reach.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid work model (four days in office)
• Scale and opportunity to work on large projects
• Challenging, stimulating work environment
• Global collaboration
• Career growth opportunities
• Equality and inclusion culture

Responsibilities

• Define standard business architecture templates and blueprints
• Collaborate with senior business leaders to identify Media business capabilities
• Collaborate on Media application needs and roadmaps
• Architect and maintain enterprise media BCMs and roadmaps
• Architect and maintain enterprise media application architecture models
• Ensure project compliance with WPP standards
• Monitor and communicate trends in media business and technology
• Advise on media platforms and projects across lifecycle stages
• Prevent non-standard WPP technology and propose compliant alternatives
• Re-architect client/product tech arising from operating model changes
• Plan transition of products between WPP Media and WPP ET as part of One WPP Model
• Document business capability models, process maps and roadmaps for media clusters
• Align capabilities with application/data/technology/security architectures
• Discover and maintain data related to media technology assets
• Define future state media technology asset portfolio
• Focus on AI capabilities alignment between WPP Media and ET

Key requirements

• Extensive experience with Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF) and/or credentials
• Extensive experience with Business Architecture and/or credentials
• Extensive experience in Business Capability Modeling & Road-mapping
• Extensive experience in Business Process Modeling & Value Stream Analysis
• Extensive experience in Business Requirements gathering
• Extensive experience of Media Production tools
• Experience with public cloud development and DevOps
• Workflow design experience in Media businesses
• Working knowledge of Salesforce and Workday
• Understanding of data modelling and integration patterns
• Understanding of modern technologies (cloud, IAM, etc.)
• Understanding of AI in marketing products
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal & stakeholder management
• Exceptional remote collaboration using Microsoft 365
• Superb negotiation skills
• Strong oral/presentation/written communication skills

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• TOGAF or equivalent
• Business Capability Modeling
• Roadmapping

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