GCP Architect

A leading professional services firm is looking for a senior GCP Architect to join their AI & Data practice. You'll be shaping and delivering enterprise scale cloud data platforms for major public and private sector clients.

What you'll be doing

• Leading architecture and solution design for enterprise GCP data platforms from discovery through to delivery
• Running stakeholder workshops, translating business requirements into scalable, secure, governed cloud solutions
• Designing and building batch and real-time data pipelines using GCP-native services
• Implementing enterprise data governance using Google Dataplex - lineage, cataloguing, metadata, data quality
• Producing the full artefact suite: SADs, HLDs, options papers, ADRs - and presenting to Architecture Review Boards and Governance Committees
• Applying GCP security controls, VPC/networking principles, IAM, and data protection standards

What you'll bring

• Deep, hands on GCP experience across BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Dataplex, and IAM
• Strong dimensional and analytical data modelling, advanced SQL, and OLAP platform design
• Familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD, and DataOps practices
• GCP Professional Data Engineer and/or Cloud Architect certifications highly regarded
• Baseline or NV1 clearance required

This role is an initial 12 month contract open to candidates from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Canberra.