Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise Commerce & Growth

vmlenterprisesolutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP Enterprise Solutions seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to lead enterprise commerce design, architecture, and go-to-market activities across major platforms and MACH-based ecosystems. You will guide clients from discovery through to delivery, framing value, orchestrating platform choices, and shaping propositions with senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes end-to-end solution design, demonstrations, and business-case development, with responsibility for ROI-focused outcomes and risk

Qualifications

• Enterprise commerce experience across retail, consumer brands or B2B.
• Breadth across leading commerce platforms and composable/MACH stacks.
• Proven presales track record: shaping deals, running workshops, writing proposals.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate tech into business value.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end enterprise commerce solutions across storefront, apps, data and back-office systems.
• Frame solutions around commercial outcomes, cost, and ROI for clients.
• Lead workshops, governance, and collaborations with commercial teams to identify growth opportunities.
• Produce architecture diagrams and designs for platform selections and migrations, including monolithic to composable shifts.
• Demonstrate value through proofs of concept and demo storefronts to de-risk decisions.
• Own solution storytelling, architecture, assumptions, and effort estimates in proposals.
• Handover to delivery teams with a clean transition and ongoing involvement during mobilisation.
• Stay across market trends in cloud, AI in commerce and partner ecosystems.

Skills

Enterprise Commerce Experience

Breadth Across Platforms

Presales and New Business

Commercial Acumen

Tools

Adobe Commerce

Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Shopify

MACH

Commerce Tools

Contentful

Algolia

Akeneo

Job description

WPP Enterprise Solutions seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to lead enterprise commerce design, architecture, and go-to-market activities across major platforms and MACH-based ecosystems. You will guide clients from discovery through to delivery, framing value, orchestrating platform choices, and shaping propositions with senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes end-to-end solution design, demonstrations, and business-case development, with responsibility for ROI-focused outcomes and risk