At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and deliver innovative cloud data solutions on GCP for finance transformation.
- Company: Leading tech firm focused on enterprise-scale data solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape the future of finance with cutting-edge cloud technology and impactful projects.
- Qualifications: Expertise in GCP architecture and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
The GCP Solution Architect / Data Architect plays a critical role in designing, governing, and delivering enterprise-scale data and cloud solutions across finance transformation programmes.
This hybrid position combines strategic solution architecture with hands‑on data architecture expertise to enable resilient, scalable, and cost-effective data platforms.
The role ensures alignment with enterprise standards, supports quarterly planning, and guides engineering teams through iterative delivery cycles.
Your responsibilities:
Lead end‑to‑end architecture design for cloud‑native data solutions on GCP.
Shape architectural direction, ensuring alignment with security, data governance, and compliance standards.
Drive iterative design practices, influencing product owners, engineering teams, and cross‑platform stakeholders.
Develop architectural roadmaps supporting quarterly planning cycles and long‑term finance transformation goals.
Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for financial, regulatory, and operational datasets.
Define ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption patterns.
Establish principles for metadata, lineage, reference data, and data stewardship.
Collaborate with SMEs to translate business requirements into scalable data models.
Architect solutions using GCP services such as Big Query, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Cloud Functions, and IAM.
Design cost‑optimised workloads and implement best practices for performance and scalability.
Support engineering teams with reusable patterns, blueprint architectures, and cloud engineering guidance.
Work with CTO architects, data platform teams, and transformation leads to influence platform decisions.
Participate in architecture boards, design forums, and technical governance committees.
Clearly articulate technical decisions and direction to non‑technical and senior stakeholders.
Good‑to‑Have Skills
Strong expertise in GCP architecture (Big Query, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, IAM, Composer).
Deep understanding of metadata, lineage, data governance, and reference data frameworks.
Strong experience with finance data flows—ledger, MI, reconciliation, and reporting.
Ability to lead engineering teams and drive architectural consistency.
Your Profile
Strong expertise in GCP architecture (Big Query, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, IAM, Composer).
Deep understanding of metadata, lineage, data governance, and reference data frameworks.
Strong experience with finance data flows—ledger, MI, reconciliation, and reporting.
Ability to lead engineering teams and drive architectural consistency.
Qualifications
Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) – preferred.
Google Professional Data Engineer (PDE) – preferred.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins).
Familiarity with data quality and lineage tools.
Understanding of hybrid and multi‑cloud patterns.
Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
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