Cloud Adoption & Onboarding Lead (12 months FTC)
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100.
WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Key performance indicators for WPP (2020) include Billings of £46.9bn and Revenue of £12bn.
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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.
As we continue this journey….Cloud Adoption and Onboarding lead will own management of an internal function to drive Cloud Hub support coverage expansion, to remove dependency and costs for 3rd party services attached to onboarding activities.
The function will promote centralised management of Cloud assets and ensure strategic tooling is installed on all customer supported workloads for monitoring, observability, security, compliance, and controls to operate effectively.
The role will report to Cloud Business Affairs Lead and work closely with Cloud Customer Success, Cloud Engineering and GTS stakeholders with OpCo's
What you'll be doing:
- Own hiring and management of the internal Onboarding team
- Manage 3rd party resources where required and act as an escalation point across the programmes for Onboarding activities
- Own Cloud Hub support offering as a product offering for Public Cloud Providers
- Work closely with CyberSecurity, FinOps and Identity management teams to build and manage the support package offering\
- Manage all aspects of Onboarding to Cloud Hub support
- Establish practices and drive automation to streamline onboarding to Cloud Hub support
- Work with relevant stakeholders on orchestrating the tenant ownership transition.
- Track the benefits of cloud onboarding and report them to senior leadership
- Manage all aspects of engagement with Tenant owners, Archetype leads and transformations teams.
What you'll need:
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong understanding of Cloud technologies and Cloud Native tools
- Cloud Foundations Azure and GCP
- Strong Technical Problem Solving
- Basic understanding of Cyber security tooling
- SAFe Agile practitioner
- Site Reliability Engineering concepts and Service Management
- Scrum Master, Product Owner certification
- Proactive and meticulous approach to work
- Ability to communicate at different seniority levels effectively
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 accepting: of 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 promote a culture of people that 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?
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WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
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