Principal Solutions Architect, Technology Sales Lead (AWS)

VML/WPPEnterprise Solutions; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP Enterprise Solutions seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to lead the AWS alliance in North America. You will own the technical strategy for co‑sell pursuits, set the bar for architectural excellence, and partner with AWS field teams to win strategic deals.

You will shape production‑grade reference architectures, drive proof‑of‑concepts, and mentor delivery teams while maintaining senior influence in a fast‑growing collaboration with AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical pre‑sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting, with senior client‑facing credibility.
• Deep hands‑on AWS expertise with a track record of delivered projects.
• Strong record leading demos and POCs that win competitive pursuits.
• Enterprise architecture patterns and sound judgment to apply them.
• Experience in a Global Systems Integrator, agency, or professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy behind AWS co‑sell pursuits, including reference architectures and proofs that remove doubt.
• Design reference architectures that become standards and reusable across pursuits.
• Lead proof‑of‑concept work that converts to production systems.
• Build trusted AWS field relationships with Solutions Architects and ProServe.
• Set the technical direction for the alliance and stay ahead of AWS roadmaps.

Skills

Generative AI

Data & Analytics

Customer Experience

Modern Applications

AWS expertise

Tools

AWS Cloud

Job description

Principal Solutions Architect, Technology Sales Lead (AWS)

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where AI is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best‑in‑class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.

Who We Are

WPP Enterprise Solutions is the enterprise technology and transformation capability of WPP, delivering data, AI, and modern applications for the world’s leading brands. We partner with AWS to bring these capabilities to blue‑chip clients, WPP Enterprise Solutions signed a multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS, and we are building toward AWS Premier Partner status. This role sits at the center of that growth.

The Opportunity

We are hiring the senior technical voice of our AWS alliance in North America/EMEA. This is the person AWS field leadership and client architects turn to when a deal needs technical credibility, and the person who shapes how we win on AWS.

You will own the technical strategy behind our co‑sell pursuits: the reference architectures that become client blueprints, the proof points that remove doubt, and the joint solutions that define our AWS partnership. This is a hands‑on principal role for someone who wants their architecture decisions to carry weight across a fast‑growing alliance, not a task‑based delivery seat.

Role Summary

This is a principal‑level technical pre‑sales role. You are the senior technical authority for AWS co‑sell across North America. You partner directly with Alliance Sales, Alliance Solution Leads, AWS Solutions Architects, and client engineering teams to win strategic pursuits. You set the technical direction, and you bring the depth to back it up in the room.

This is an individual contributor role with senior influence. You will mentor delivery teams and shape technical standards, but your primary impact is winning the pursuits that grow the alliance.

What You Will Own

Technical leadership on strategic pursuits. Serve as the senior technical partner on priority AWS co‑sell opportunities. Set the technical win strategy, lead client‑facing deep dives alongside AWS SAs, and remove the objections that decide competitive deals.

Reference architectures that become standards. Design the architectures that anchor our joint AWS solutions and get reused across pursuits. Contribute to AWS Partner Central and establish the patterns delivery teams build from.

Proof that converts. Scope and lead the proof‑of‑concept work that proves we can deliver, and shape those POCs so they become production systems.

AWS field relationships. Build trusted relationships with AWS Solutions Architects, Specialist SAs, and ProServe. Be the technical name AWS field teams want on their deals.

Technical direction for the alliance. Advise our leadership and client leadership on AWS architecture strategy. Keep us ahead of AWS roadmaps in priority services, and set the technical bar as the alliance scales.

Technical Depth

• Generative AI: Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, agentic and generative AI application patterns
• Data & Analytics: Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), AWS Clean Rooms, data lakes, analytics pipelines
• Customer Experience: Amazon Personalize, Amazon Connect, serverless architectures
• Modern Applications: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, container orchestration

How Success Looks

• Technical win rate on the strategic pursuits you lead
• Competitive deals turned in our favor by your technical credibility
• Reference architectures adopted as reusable standards across the alliance
• POC‑to‑production conversion on the engagements you shape
• Strength of your working relationships with AWS field and specialist teams
• The technical bar you set for delivery teams as the alliance grows

What You Bring

Required

• 5+ years in technical pre‑sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting, with senior client‑facing credibility
• Deep hands‑on AWS expertise with a track record of delivered projects
• A strong record leading demos and POCs that win competitive pursuits
• Command of enterprise architecture patterns and the judgment to apply them
• Experience in a Global Systems Integrator, agency, or professional services environment

Preferred

• AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Professional and specialty certifications (ML, Data Analytics)
• Hands‑on experience with Amazon Bedrock and generative AI implementations
• Familiarity with Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) and advertising technology
• Prior AWS partner‑company or direct AWS experience
• Experience supporting co‑sell motions with AWS field teams

Why This Role

You will be in the room for the technical decisions that win AWS deals. You will build the architectures that become client solutions and the proof that tips competitive pursuits in our favor. As the alliance grows toward Premier Partner status, you will set the technical standard the whole team builds on.

Your technical excellence directly drives AWS alliance revenue growth, and here it will be seen.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world‑class partnerships – all united by our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.

WPP (VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.