AJO Engineer

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. The opportunity We are looking for an experienced AJO consultant with proven hands-on implementation background. This role is for candidates who have already delivered AJO and AEP solutions for enterprise customers and are ready to lead engagements independently. We hire for deep platform expertise, a client-first mindset, strong technical delivery capability, and the ability to advise customers with confidence across the full implementation lifecycle. Must-Have Skills Adobe Journey Optimizer implementation: Hands-on experience delivering AJO solutions including journey orchestration, event triggers, conditions, wait logic, automations, custom actions, messages, offer decisioning, and channel configurations across email, push, SMS, in-app, and web. Adobe Experience Platform expertise: Deep working knowledge of AEP services including Real-Time Customer Profile, Identity Service, XDM schema design, source connectors, datasets, audience segmentation (rule-based and AI/ML), and destination configuration. Data modelling and XDM: Strong ability to design and implement Experience Data Model (XDM) schemas for multi-channel marketing use cases. Ability to map source-system fields to XDM, define identity namespaces, and model profile and experience event data correctly. SQL and data querying: Strong SQL proficiency for querying datasets, writing complex joins and aggregates, applying filter conditions, transforming data, and working within AEP Data Distiller or similar query environments. API development and integration: Hands-on experience integrating with AEP and AJO REST APIs, designing custom actions, configuring webhooks, working with JSON payloads, managing OAuth or IMS authentication, and validating with Postman or similar tooling. JavaScript and scripting: Proficiency in JavaScript for personalization logic, API calls, and custom scripting within AJO and AEP. Comfort with HTML and CSS for email and web experience rendering. Segmentation and audience design: Practical experience creating and validating rule-based segments, computed attributes, AI/ML-powered audiences, and multi-channel activation…