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.
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 transforming to create our future IT together that will support the world’s largest creative transformation company.
As we continue on this journey, we have identified the need for a Google Technical Engineer to work across Functions including support and develop, optimise and simplify global platform products, integrations and features built on WPP Platforms, enabling improved client delivery and employee experiences globally.
Reporting into the Google Workspace Head, you will support the innovation and lifecycle management for Google Workspace, helping to prioritise work backlogs within a defined envelope aligned to this product family- convening and commissioning from across WPP IT as necessary
What you'll be doing:
- Provide 1st line support for Google Workspace products and other integrated collaboration tools.
- Technical configuration and deep technical knowledge of Google workspace across multiple tenants.
- Work with the Google Workspace team to align licensing to ensure that Opcos are using the most suitable and cost optimized license for their role/needs.
- Engage with the Google Workspace Team to promote project initiatives and support implementation.
- work with technical experts in other areas and offer Google Workspace expertise in M&A and consolidation activities.
- Work with the Google Workspace Community providing community support and enablement though user groups and a new Center of Excellence or Community of Practice.
- Proactively identify critical activities, security & compliance enhancements, monitor platform and address security vulnerabilities
- Represent the "Voice of the Customer" within Google to inform and influence engineering and document business-value driven customer success stories and shared practices.
- Work with projects implementation that require technology input and development for Google products.
- Drive adoption of secure by design, DevOps engineering and agile practices within the Architype context as defined by Platforms and Transformation CoPs
- Drive the maximum possible level of automation and instrumentation of the development lifecycle for Google products in alignment with SRE ethics.
What you'll need:
- Technology Expert in Google Workspace and Cloud Collaboration platforms
- SaaSOps
- Product Lifecycle Management/Ownership
- Appscript and Appsheet for automation and efficiency
- Product specialist engineering and support
- Stakeholder engagement
Shift Timings: 6:30 am to 3:00 PM
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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