GCP Data Architect

GCP Data Architect Day Rate: £525 (Inside IR35) per day | Location: London or Bristol, UK (2 days onsite per week) Contract: 12 Months Are you an experienced GCP Data Architect looking to play a key role in delivering enterprise-scale cloud and data transformation programmes? Our client, a top global organization, is looking for an experienced architect to design and govern cloud-native data platforms, combining strategic solution architecture with hands-on data architecture expertise. You'll work across large-scale finance transformation initiatives, helping shape resilient, secure and scalable GCP solutions while influencing engineering teams and senior stakeholders. Responsibilities • Design end-to-end cloud-native data architectures on Google Cloud Platform • Lead solution architecture across enterprise finance transformation programmes • Design conceptual, logical and physical data models • Define ingestion, transformation, storage and reporting patterns • Build scalable solutions using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer and Cloud Storage • Drive metadata, lineage, governance and reference data strategies • Produce reusable architecture patterns and technical standards • Collaborate with engineering teams, architects and business stakeholders • Participate in architecture governance and technical design reviews • Guide engineering teams through delivery and architectural best practice Essential Skills • Strong experience designing enterprise data platforms on Google Cloud Platform • Expertise with BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Cloud Storage and IAM • Advanced data modelling experience (3NF, Data Vault, Dimensional Modelling) • Strong understanding of metadata, lineage and data governance • Experience designing finance data platforms including reporting, reconciliation and ledger data • Experience leading architecture across multiple delivery teams • Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills Desirable • Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) • Google Professional Data Engineer (PDE) • TOGAF certification • Terraform • CI/CD (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) • Hybrid or multi-cloud architecture experience Please apply with your CV and we'll be in touch. Thank you!