About this role
Salary: £64,000 - 104,000 per year
Requirements: Enterprise architecture experience spanning the digital workplace, including identity, devices and endpoints, collaboration and productivity, and office, meeting-room, and voice technologies.Proven cross-domain architecture leadership across an end-to-end workplace estate at global scale.Experience applying architecture frameworks and modelling methods, such as TOGAF, pragmatically.Expertise in security-by-design, zero-trust, and data-protection architecture for the workplace.Experience with integration and platform architecture across cloud platforms such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, endpoint, and identity ecosystems.Strong communication and influencing skills with engineering, vendor, and executive audiences.Recognised architecture experience in the relevant domain at enterprise scale.Relevant architecture or platform certifications, such as TOGAF or vendor architect certifications.A degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.Ability to set target architecture, standards, and design patterns; design for security, scale, resilience, and total cost of ownership; influence engineering and vendor teams without direct authority; balance strategic ambition with pragmatic decisions; and stay current with platform direction and emerging capabilities. Responsibilities: Define and own the target-state architecture for our Modern Workplace estate across Identity, Client Devices, Productivity Tools, and Office Technology.Set cross-tower architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and technology roadmaps.Serve as the design authority for major and cross-tower workplace changes.Architect integration across towers—including identity-led security, devices, collaboration, and meeting-room and voice services—to create a coherent employee experience.Embed security-by-design, zero-trust, resilience, accessibility, data protection, and total cost of ownership across every domain.Ensure that Kyndryl- and partner-delivered designs and changes align with our architecture, security, resilience, and standards across all four towers.Own workplace technology strategy, build-versus-buy decisions, and horizon-scanning for emerging capabilities, including AI in the workplace.Advise our Modern Workplace Director and tower heads, aligning architecture with our business and agency priorities.Set the architecture, patterns, and guardrails within which Kyndryl implements and operates.Act as the approval gate for partner architecture decisions. Technologies: AIArchitectCloudMarketingMicrosoft 365SecurityTOGAFOffice 365 More:
WPP is a trusted growth partner to leading brands, combining media intelligence and data, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel through our WPP Open marketing platform. We work with valuable brands across more than 100 markets. WPP Enterprise Technology provides technology services for WPP and supports the transformation of our clients through technology for creative brands. This role owns the end-to-end target architecture for our Modern Workplace estate, providing strategic coherence across four technology towers and helping ensure a secure, integrated, modern, and future-ready employee experience. We foster creativity, belonging, and continuous learning, and offer opportunities to work on challenging projects at an exceptional scale with passionate, collaborative people. We use a hybrid approach, with teams generally in the office around four days a week; accommodations or flexibility can be discussed with our hiring team. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to respect, belonging, and equal opportunities for career progression.
last updated 40 week of 2026