Why we're hiring:

WPP is a creative transformation company, helping clients create growth by combining technology and creativity. As one of the world's largest marketing and advertising services organizations, we are committed to driving innovation and operational excellence across our vast global network.

You will be joining the Automation Operations Centre within WPP's Enterprise Technology, Automation & AI department. This is a pivotal time for us as we're building a dedicated, in-house team to deliver, manage, monitor, and optimize our growing portfolio of automation solutions. This team is at the forefront of our digital transformation, ensuring the seamless operation and continuous improvement of critical automation capabilities across WPP globally

You will play a crucial role in solution delivery and day-to-day technology management of the Global Automation Operations Centre (AOC) program. Reporting to the AAI Operations Director and AAI Product Lead, you will lead the architecture, standards, and advanced development requirements for our global automation portfolio. Alongside AAI Leadership, you will guide a crew of 6-10 developers to ensure the release of high-quality automation products on time and within budget.

The AOC is chartered to develop and delivery automation products, support global automation products or projects delivered by Automation delivery teams from around WPP. Our support apparatus gives those teams confidence and freedom to hand over their existing successes and continue innovating.

Are you a visionary technical leader with a deep mastery of the Microsoft Power Platform and a passion for engineering excellence? We are looking for an Automation Engineering Lead to drive our technical strategy and architectural standards. In this senior role, you will be responsible for conducting research spikes, providing technical guidance to development teams, and ensuring that our global automation suite is built on a foundation of robust, scalable, and maintainable components. You will combine your extensive experience from the D365/Dataverse era with modern ALM practices to keep our global operations at the cutting edge of AI and automation.

What you'll be doing:

Automation Engineering Lead (Engineering Excellence + AI-Driven Automation) 

We are looking for an experienced Automation Engineering Lead who combines a complete view across multiple engineering technology streams with a strong background in automation and AI-driven engineering practices across modern technology stacks. 

This is not a single-stack or platform-specific role. 

You will act as an enterprise engineering leader, responsible for designing scalable, high-performance solutions by evaluating the right engineering approach across diverse technology streams spanning APIs, backend services, modern frontends, cloud platforms, deployment architecture, and AI/ML capabilities. 

You will play a critical role in shaping engineering strategy, establishing end-to-end engineering processes, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring solutions are fit-for-purpose, scalable, and future-ready. 

 What You’ll Be Doing 

Solution Architecture & Technology Decisioning 

• Own end-to-end architecture for automation use cases across the enterprise  

• Evaluate and recommend the right approach across:  

• Cloud-native engineering (microservices, serverless, container platforms)  

• Custom engineering (APIs, backend services, UI frameworks)  

• AI-augmented automation combining ML services, LLMs, and intelligent workflows  

• Make informed trade-offs between build vs buy, custom vs platform, and AI-driven vs deterministic approaches based on scalability, cost, and maintainability  

• Act as a key decision-maker on the right technology stream and tooling for each engineering problem  

• Knowledge in Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse) 

 Architectural Governance 

• Define and enforce global architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices  

• Establish reusable engineering frameworks and AI-driven automation accelerators across teams  

• Ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across implementations  

 Technical Leadership 

• Lead and mentor a team of 6–10 engineers  

• Provide hands-on guidance, solution reviews, and architectural oversight  

• Drive engineering excellence and a culture of continuous improvement  

 Advanced & Hybrid Development 

• Lead complex implementations involving:  

• Custom connectors and API integrations  

• AI/ML model integration and intelligent automation patterns  

• Backend services (.NET / Java / Node.js / Python) where required  

• Handle research spikes and evaluate new tools, frameworks, and capabilities  

 Integration & Data Architecture 

• Design robust integration solutions using:  

• REST APIs, webhooks, and service-based architectures  

• Event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns  

• Work with structured and unstructured data across:  

• Cloud data platforms (Azure Data Lake, BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.)  

• SQL / external data systems  

• Dataverse 

• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of automation workflows  

 ALM & DevOps Strategy 

• Own and mature end-to-end engineering processes including ALM, code quality, and release governance across the organization  

• Implement CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar  

• Drive adoption of code-first, version-controlled, and AI-assisted development practices  

 Stakeholder Collaboration 

• Partner with business and leadership teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions  

• Align architecture decisions with business goals, timelines, and budgets  

• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders  

 Security, Compliance & Supportability 

• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise security, governance, and data protection policies  

• Design solutions for operational readiness, observability, and smooth handover to support teams  

 What You’ll Need 

Experience 

• 12+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise application development  

• Proven track record leading engineering teams across multiple technology streams with a strong background in automation and AI-driven engineering  

• Knowledge in Power platform or Dynamics 365 ecosystem 

 Engineering Process & AI-Automation Expertise 

• Deep expertise in:  

• End-to-end engineering processes (SDLC, code reviews, quality gates, release management) implemented at organizational scale  

• Deployment and technical architecture across cloud and hybrid environments  

• Automation engineering (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, test automation, workflow automation)  

• Experience with:  

• Engineering AI workstreams (LLMs, agentic systems, intelligent automation)  

• Applying AI in automation (code generation, automated testing, intelligent code review, copilots)  

• Ability to drive engineering excellence and modernize platforms using AI-augmented approaches  

 Architecture & Engineering Breadth (Critical) 

• Strong experience with API design and REST-based integrations  

• Solid understanding of SQL, data modeling, and performance optimization  

• Hands-on experience with at least one backend technology (.NET / Java / Node.js / Python)  

• Exposure to modern frontend frameworks (React or similar)  

• Understanding of:  

• Microservices and distributed systems  

• Event-driven architecture (queues, messaging, pub/sub)  

• Proven ability to design and deliver solutions across diverse engineering streams with the right deployment and architecture choices  

 DevOps & ALM 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments  

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools  

• Strong understanding of environment strategy, solution segmentation, and release management  

 Leadership & Problem Solving 

• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams  

• Strong architectural thinking and decision-making skills  

• Ability to solve complex, ambiguous technical challenges  

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills  

 Nice to Have 

• Experience with Azure services (Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management)  

• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and iPaaS platforms  

• Hands-on experience embedding LLMs, agents, or copilots into automation and engineering workflows  

 Certifications 

• Certifications in AI/ML, DevOps, or enterprise architecture (TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent), PL-600: Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect (preferred)  

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

#onsite

Job Title: AI Applications Engineer II

Location: Bangalore/ Chennai, India

About the Role

We’re looking for a passionate AI Applications Engineer II to join our growing Enterprise AI Team. In this role, you’ll help manage, support, and optimize our Google Gemini Enterprise agentic AI platform, ensuring it operates securely, efficiently, and at scale across the organization.

You’ll spend most of your time focused on Gemini Enterprise platform administration, governance, and support, along with some dedicated time to enhancing/building/doing POC work on agentic and automation projects that furthers performance, user experience, and integration with Five9 enterprise systems.

If you’re driven by innovation, precision, and the opportunity to shape how AI supports a global business, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and optimize Gemini Enterprise and related AI agentic functionality to ensure seamless performance and compliance within Five9 environments.
• Manage user provisioning, license assignments, access controls, and security policies, ensuring consistency with IT, Infosec and compliance governance standards.
• Oversee appropriate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources — including Project services, AI/ML engine, storage, and Gemini AI models — focusing on reliability, performance, and cost management.
• Support cloud run workflows, CI/CD automation pipelines, and containerized environments, leveraging tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Partner with data engineers, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders to troubleshoot issues, implement updates, and ensure timely support for production workloads.
• Conduct prompt engineering and workflow optimization to improve agentic AI accuracy, responsiveness, and relevance.
• Maintain and update documentation, runbooks, and best practice guides for platform operations, deployment, and support.
• Deliver training and enablement sessions to end users and power users on Gemini Enterprise capabilities and AI use cases.
• Continuously evaluate emerging Google AI and Gemini agentic technologies, recommending improvements that enhance scalability and automation.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (AI or data systems focus preferred).
• Minimum of 3 years of GCP experience supporting or developing AI/ML solutions on Google platform.
• Hands on experience with AI/ ML solutions/apps and operational best practices (ML Ops experience is advantageous).
• Proficiency with GCP services such as Compute Engine, IAM, Kubernetes, VPC, BQ, etc.
• Experience in automation and scripting using Python, Bash, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Familiarity with Gemini Enterprise or similar enterprise AI frameworks, including prompt engineering, AI agent configuration, and data governance.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and auditing practices, including DLP, Access Transparency, and data residency standards.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities, with the capacity to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• A passion for innovation, continuous learning, and driving impactful AI adoption across the enterprise.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Be part of a forward-thinking Enterprise AI Team, driving next-generation innovation across the company.
• Work hands-on with cutting-edge technologies like Google Gemini Enterprise and other agentic AI tools that power real-world business applications.
• Collaborate with skilled engineers, data scientists, and business leaders on high-visibility projects that make a measurable impact.
• Enjoy a culture that values experimentation, continuous learning, and teamwork, with opportunities to grow your skills in cloud operations and AI engineering.
• Play a key role in transforming enterprise workflows through AI innovation, scalability, and operational excellence.

Why we're hiring:

We are looking for a Data Analyst to support in the continued development of WPP’s client operations analytics team, using business intelligence tools and visualisations to share with WPP HQ and the wider WPP network.

What you'll be doing:

Reporting into the Director of Data Operations, this role will work in several capacities including analysing data, creating technical solutions, assessing business issues, rolling out a software solution and building internal client relationships. In this role you will help to bring insights directly to the business, enabling senior stakeholders to make informed data driven decisions on a daily basis.

The role will be as follows:

• Support our ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) process for all current & future data feeds
• Work with all existing agencies data feeds to identify & resolve any validation concerns
• Create and/or manage WPP’s master data tables
• Assist with new agency/country implementation programmes
• Filter and “clean” data by reviewing validation reports and performance indicators to locate and correct code & data process problems
• Provide ad hoc analysis to key client stakeholders

Who you'll be working with:

You’ll be working closely with all of the Data & Insights team which currently consists of 13 people (8 based in UK, 2 based in Madrid & 3 based in India) who are nice group of individuals and are a close working team that all get on well, and who are looking forward to what this team could achieve in the future.

You will also be working closely with the Data Manager, EVP of Marketing & Growth Operations, other stakeholders from WPP Operating Companies.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. Normally we work together in our amazing office twice a week.

This role reports to the Director of Data Operations within the Enterprise Data Group team.

What you'll need:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in SQL and Python (pandas, PySpark) for data analysis
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or a comparable cloud platform (Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Familiarity with modern data formats (CSV, JSON, Parquet, Delta)
• Attention to detail and a willingness to learn new tools
• Fundamental understanding of REST APIs is desirable, but not mandatory
• Exposure to AI-assisted analytics workflows (e.g. Claude, Copilot, Genie) is a plus

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

#LI-Hybrid 

Job responsibilities

Job qualifications

Other things to know

About Thoughtworks

About the Team At Business Technology, we use Appian to run Appian. We are launching our first internal AI team to build the foundation for how our global company works. This team won't just use AI, they will build the brain of the enterprise, spanning everything from predictive intelligence in our data warehouse to the GenAI infrastructure that powers our internal autonomous agents.

We are hiring a founding group of engineers to kickstart this mission. As an AI Engineer on this team, you won’t be maintaining legacy systems; you’ll be building from the ground up. You will own the full spectrum of AI: crafting predictive ML models to find insights in our data warehouse and architecting GenAI systems that allow any employee to interact with enterprise knowledge through intelligent agents.

If you want to be part of the original team that defines internal AI for a leading automation company, this is your moment.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a midlevel role and is aimed at people with 3+ years experience

What you’ll do:

• Build the AI Platform: Design, deploy, and scale GenAI infrastructure on GCP Vertex AI (preferred) or AWS Bedrock.
• Build & Operate MCP Servers: Develop and maintain Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that expose enterprise systems (databases, APIs, internal tools) as structured, AI-consumable capabilities.
• Design the Tool Layer: Build the tool registry and invocation framework that allows agents to interact with internal systems safely and reliably including schema design, access controls, and error handling.
• Engineer Agent-to-Agent Infrastructure: Architect the communication and coordination layer that allows specialized agents to delegate tasks, share context, and compose into larger autonomous workflows.
• Own the Retrieval Layer: Architect and operate RAG systems, including vector stores, embedding pipelines, chunking strategies, and retrieval evaluation frameworks.
• Establish AI Reliability: Instrument AI systems with logging, tracing, latency monitoring, and evaluation hooks so agents can be trusted, debugged, and improved in production.

Required Qualifications:

• AI Infrastructure Experience: Professional experience building and deploying production-grade GenAI systems on GCP Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock including LLM APIs, agent frameworks, and RAG pipelines.
• Python Mastery: Deep proficiency in Python and common AI/ML libraries (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, Google Cloud AI SDK).
• Agentic Systems: Hands-on experience building multi-step, tool-calling AI agents that operate reliably in production including tool schema design, structured outputs, and failure handling.
• MCP or Tool Protocol Experience: Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or equivalent patterns for exposing enterprise resources to AI systems as callable, permissioned tools.
• Vector & Retrieval Systems: Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector, or similar) and embedding-based retrieval at scale.
• Technical Foundation: B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• The Pioneer Mindset: A self-starter who is excited to be part of a "first-of-its-kind" team and thrives in environments where you are building the playbook.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Multi-Agent Architectures: Experience designing orchestrator/subagent patterns, agent handoff protocols, or systems where multiple AI models coordinate to complete complex tasks (e.g., using frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen).
• AI Observability: Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks, prompt regression testing, or agent trace monitoring (e.g. custom eval pipelines).
• Data Warehouse Integration: Familiarity with SQL and pulling data from Snowflake or BigQuery to ground AI agents in live business context.
• Appian Exposure: Experience with the Appian platform or interest in integrating AI agents into low-code automation workflows.
• Predictive ML (Nice to Have): Some familiarity with ML fundamentals is a plus, but not a focus of this role.

This role is based at our Chennai office in Brigade World Trade Center Chennai. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.  

Senior Software Engineer, Billing

 Job Description: 

As a Sr. Backend Engineer, you will be a key player in our team, responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of our next-generation Billing service.  

 Responsibilities: 

• Design, construct, test, and maintain a highly scalable, event-driven billing service. 

• Build and operate ingestion pipelines that consume usage events from Pub/Sub and other upstream sources. 

• Implement metering, rating, aggregation, and reconciliation logic that guarantees correctness and idempotency at scale. 

• Ensure systems meet business requirements, regulatory needs, and industry best practices. 

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, engineering leaders, and test engineers to deliver new billing capabilities. 

• Drive improvements on billing reliability, accuracy, performance, and cost efficiency. 

• Troubleshoot and support the platform in production, including on-call rotations. 

 Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience. 

• 3+ years of Java backend development, with hands-on experience using Spring Boot. 

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field; a Master's is a plus. 

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in design, data structures, algorithms, problem solving, and complexity analysis. 

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and event-driven services. 

• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing. 

• Experience with messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar) and at-least-once / exactly-once processing semantics. 

• Hands-on experience with the GCP ecosystem (Pub/Sub, GCS, GKE, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or similar). 

• Experience architecting, developing, and operating internet-scale, distributed, mission-critical services. 

• Prior experience in developing new features and debugging complex issues with minimal supervision. 

 Nice-to-have: 

• Previous experience building or operating billing, metering, rating, or invoicing systems. 

• Familiarity with file-based data formats such as CSV and Parquet. 

• Experience with stream processing frameworks (Apache Beam/Dataflow, Flink, Spark Streaming). 

• Previous experience in the Contact Center or Telco industry. 

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. 

 WPP Media is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. WPP Medias portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business. 

What you'll be doing:

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements in collaboration with the MDM Lead and key stakeholders 

• Support the breakdown of high-level requirements into detailed functional and technical requirements 

• Review and analyze the existing gap analysis and help translate identified gaps into prioritized user stories and backlog items 

• Help prioritize requirements by identifying quick wins, dependencies, and delivery complexity 

• Translate agreed requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items for development teams 
• Support delivery activities by participating in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and requirement clarifications 

Additional Responsibilities: 

• Maintain requirement documentation and traceability as inputs evolve 

• Support the MDM Lead with documentation, analysis, and follow-ups across workstreams 
• Help ensure alignment between documented requirements and delivered functionality 

What you'll need:

Required Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field 

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Technical Business Analyst on data or platform initiatives 

• Proven experience gathering requirements through workshops, interviews, and documentation reviews 

• Ability to translate business needs into clear, structured requirements and user stories 

• Solid understanding of data concepts such as master data, reference data, data quality, and integrations 

• Strong analytical, organizational, and documentation skills 

• Experience working in cross-functional, global teams 

• Strong English communication skills (verbal and written) 

Preferred Skills: 

• Exposure to Master Data Management (MDM) or enterprise data platforms 

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps) 

• Basic understanding of APIs, data ingestion patterns, and outbound data consumption 

• Experience working alongside solution architects and development teams 

• Exposure to cloud data platforms such as BigQuery, Azure SQL, Databricks, or similar 

• Experience in a product-based or platform-led environment 

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

#LI-Hybrid