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Application Specialist (C# .NET)

Chennai, India

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 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore.

WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.

Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. 

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.

GroupM 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. GroupM’s 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.

The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for co-ordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.

This role is part of the Business Platform team in EMEA. The person who will fulfil this role will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the applications and services that are part of the media business flows in the local markets. This person will play an important role in the business continuity in the market and will support the local IT people work, where possible, in their efforts to handle the IT needs & problems of the customer-facing employees.

 

What you'll be doing:

  • Developing standalone and integrated solutions employing cloud technologies.
  • Identify opportunities for reuse and standardization so that solution can be built and maintained as efficiently as possible.
  • Working with a small team delivering cloud-based solutions to a variety of stakeholder and business units.
  • Analysing business requirements to design and implement the required technical solution.
  • Identify the most efficient way to implement the required technical solution.
  • Identify areas for code and process improvements.
  • Working with the team to design solutions and working practices.
  • Identify new technologies that will enhance the capability of the team and the organisation.
  • Work closely with engineering and QA resources to support ongoing development.
  • Support Product Owner & Technical Lead as key advisor by identifying system efficiencies and functionality enhancements that should be considered.

 

What you'll need:

  • Education: Combination of education/experience that would enable incumbent to meet essential duties and required competencies.

  • Personality and Working Practice: Team player, with good communication skills, analytical thinking, attention to detail and the ability to think about the big picture.

Essential Experience and Knowledge:

  • 5+ years software development using C#, .NET and .NET Web API.
  • 2+ years of cloud-native application development and continuous delivery patterns (Azure).
  • Using SQL technologies
  • Understanding of Message Based Architectures
  • API design and development and documentation (REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL)
  • Establish authentication and authorization methods and technologies
  • Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Experience with established design patterns and design principles
  • Experience with writing automated tests (Unit, Component, Integration and/or E2E tests should be familiar)

 

  • Desirable Experience and Knowledge: 
    • API Integrations (M365 JS API / SharePoint / Graph API)
    • Blazor
    • Entity Framework
    • Testing should be an established way of work for you.
  • Languages: very good English skills, any other language 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?

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We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular 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.

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