Queen Square Recruitment
GCP Data Architect
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This role is for a GCP Data Architect, contracted for 6 months, located in Bristol (Hybrid). Key skills include cloud-native data architecture, data governance, and experience in BFSI domains. GCP Professional certification is desirable. IR35 status is inside.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 17, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#ML (Machine Learning) #Data Management #Scala #Observability #Agile #Unit Testing #Looker #Data Governance #Data Pipeline #Data Architecture #Data Engineering #Migration #Metadata #Dynatrace #Deployment #Data Lineage #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Documentation #ML Ops (Machine Learning Operations) #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #Monitoring #Cloud
Role description
New Exciting Opportunity for GCP Data Architect
Location: Bristol ( Hybrid- 2 days from Office)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
The Role
This role will play a critical part in architecting and modernising cloud-native data platforms on Google Cloud Platform for a major financial services environment. You will design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimised data solutions that serve high-volume, high-regulatory workloads. The role provides exposure to large-scale transformation programmes, modern engineering practices, mature data governance frameworks, and access to advanced GCP services, enabling you to influence enterprise-wide data strategies.
Essential skills/experience:
· Identifying the correct architecture patterns for workload deployment and ensuring governance
· Managing data lineage and quality aspects of DPs
· Understanding and defining SRE principles such as SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for each workload
· Supporting feature teams across the lab in optimizing FinOps for live workloads
· Developing and deploying data pipelines using various GCP services
· Implementing TDD for unit testing and DBB for functional testing
· Reviewing and creating FinOps dashboards for the lab
· Creating custom Dynatrace monitoring and alerting
· Integrating Looker and enabling reporting for end-users within general guardrails
• Experience in designing high-volume ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, lineage, metadata management, and regulatory controls.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional Agile teams and influence technical direction.
• Experience executing cloud migration or platform modernisation programs.
• Excellent architectural documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable skills/experience:
• GCP Professional Data Engineer or Cloud Architect certification
• Experience in BFSI domains such as AML, Fraud, Risk, Finance, or Regulatory Reporting.
• Exposure to real-time streaming, ML Ops, and advanced analytics architectures.
• Experience with platform observability tools and cloud cost management framework
New Exciting Opportunity for GCP Data Architect
Location: Bristol ( Hybrid- 2 days from Office)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
The Role
This role will play a critical part in architecting and modernising cloud-native data platforms on Google Cloud Platform for a major financial services environment. You will design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimised data solutions that serve high-volume, high-regulatory workloads. The role provides exposure to large-scale transformation programmes, modern engineering practices, mature data governance frameworks, and access to advanced GCP services, enabling you to influence enterprise-wide data strategies.
Essential skills/experience:
· Identifying the correct architecture patterns for workload deployment and ensuring governance
· Managing data lineage and quality aspects of DPs
· Understanding and defining SRE principles such as SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for each workload
· Supporting feature teams across the lab in optimizing FinOps for live workloads
· Developing and deploying data pipelines using various GCP services
· Implementing TDD for unit testing and DBB for functional testing
· Reviewing and creating FinOps dashboards for the lab
· Creating custom Dynatrace monitoring and alerting
· Integrating Looker and enabling reporting for end-users within general guardrails
• Experience in designing high-volume ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, lineage, metadata management, and regulatory controls.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional Agile teams and influence technical direction.
• Experience executing cloud migration or platform modernisation programs.
• Excellent architectural documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable skills/experience:
• GCP Professional Data Engineer or Cloud Architect certification
• Experience in BFSI domains such as AML, Fraud, Risk, Finance, or Regulatory Reporting.
• Exposure to real-time streaming, ML Ops, and advanced analytics architectures.
• Experience with platform observability tools and cloud cost management framework
