Who We Are

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al 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.

Opportunity

We are looking to employ a passionate, enthusiastic, and consulting focused candidate into the India professional services team. As a Technical Lead, you will develop and implement customer web platforms using front end technologies. This involves defining scope, timelines, technical solutions and leading the end to end delivery. You will drive customer communication, engage customers, facilitate development, ensure adoption and adherence to best practices and mentor team of developers. The ideal candidate is customer-centric, collaborative, and fosters inclusivity, authenticity, and trust across teams.

Experience in Years: 10+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

Participate in Discovery sessions to identify business priorities and expectations of authoring experience in CMS.
Lead workshops between creative, content teams, and development teams in relation to template and component identification and requirements, and governance strategy between development and authoring tasks.
Collaborate and work closely with customer and manage expectations, ensure clear communication, define scope, agree on timelines and manage client dependencies.
Gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Lead story/task grooming sessions and evaluate the dependencies and prerequisites for the tasks.
Lead greening sessions and ability to solution and estimate efforts.
Design, build, and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code.
Review PRs and manage quality of development, coach and mentor team on development skills and ensure adherence to best practices.
Support client content team on platform usage, guidance and support.
Manage feature/product demos to customer.
Lead retrospective workshop at conclusion of project; capture and up-level actionable recommendations.
Collaborate with Sales on GTM service offerings and pre-sales inquiries.
Coordinate customer feedback with product teams
Research trends for design & front-end technologies to support improving design/front-end workflows.

Requirement

Soft skills:

Strong problem-solving skills.
Experience working in a globally dispersed scrum team.
Demonstrated experience in Agile methodologies.
Collaboration and engagement skills.
Experience working with Communications and/or Marketing teams and/or Design Agencies.
Demonstrated adaptability, goal orientated and innovative individual.
Strategic problem solver and can relate the day-to-day details with broader business objectives.
Experience in leading a project team.
Experience in working directly with customer.

Technical Skills:

Experience with any known CMS with functional knowledge of template editor and content author roles.
Expertise in responsive design and mobile application design.
Expertise in front-end development, especially JAM stack
In depth knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 (Less, Sass is a plus), knowledge of BEM methodology is preferred.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
Detailed knowledge of JavaScript (ES6 is a plus).
Experience with Atomic design paradigm is a plus.
Expertise in Design systems, Style guides, Pattern libraries
Familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.