Who We Are:

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.

The Opportunity:

Hybris Developer required to work in an experienced team of software architects and developers, to be responsible for the design, development and testing of quality code to meet customer driven specifications.

What Youll Be Doing:

- Working within a project team, to deliver high quality code to deadlines.

- To clearly communicate what is to be done and the milestones achieved to those within the project in an agreed manner.

- To realistically estimate your own delivery timescales.

- To solve problems posed using the tools and materials provided or to suggest alternatives where appropriate.

- To create robust solutions using the tools and materials provided or to suggest alternatives where appropriate.

- Take some responsibility from and can deputise for the senior/lead developer.

- Lead small technical discussions on problem solving and solution design.

- To mentor junior developers.

- To be a motivated self-starter.

What We Want From You:

- Extensive Hybris development experience (ideally 2011 +).

- Extensive experience coding in Java language (Java17 +).

- Experience with Data structures.

- Exposure to Web technologies.

- Object oriented software design patterns experience.

- Some understanding of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

- Familiarity with Windows or Linux operating system.

- Strong spoken and written communication.

If You Know Some Of This Even Better:

- Experience of delivering software as part of a team.

- Experience of Spring.

- Knowledge of JavaScript, front end technologies.

- Knowledge of other JVM based languages Groovy, Scala, Clojure.

- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages, such as Groovy, Python.

- Knowledge of webservices technologies such as SOAP, REST, JSON.

- Knowledge of relational database platforms Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.

- Knowledge of NoSQL database platforms such as Cassandra or MongoDB.

- Knowledge of message queuing systems such as Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.

- Contributions to open source projects.

What We Can Offer You:

- Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, well also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills.

- Well empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

- Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say.

- Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

1. Connect Meaningfully.

2. Inspire Creatively.

3. Include Purposefully.

4. Approach Positively.

- Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are.

- Thats why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.