GCP BigQuery Architect
Title: GCP BigQuery Architect
Location : Manchester - 2 days onsite per week
Duration : 6 - 12 Months Rolling Contract
Budget : £450 per day, all inclusive
Inside IR35
We are looking for an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud.
The role will focus on BigQuery, cloud migration, data warehousing and modern data engineering, working closely with business and technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Design scalable, secure and high-performance GCP/BigQuery data architectures
Lead migration of Legacy data warehouses and ETL workloads to GCP
Define end-to-end architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage, governance and reporting
Design and optimise BigQuery schemas, partitioning, clustering, performance and cost
Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews and stakeholder guidance
Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and cloud governance best practices
Mandatory
10+ years' IT experience, including 5+ years in GCP data engineering/architecture
Strong BigQuery architecture, optimisation and administration
Hands-on experience with Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run
Strong SQL, data modelling and data warehousing
Proven experience migrating Legacy/on-premise platforms to GCP
Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git and DevOps
Good understanding of IAM, security, networking and cloud governance
Experience integrating Looker, Tableau or Power BI with BigQuery
Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills
Bonus
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Cloud Architect certification
Experience with Dataplex, Data Catalog or Vertex AI
Experience within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes
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GCP BigQuery Architect - Manchester (Hybrid) - Inside IR35 - £450 PD employer: iBSC
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