GCP Data Architect
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires a GCP Data Architect to be based at their client’s office in London, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London office 3 days per week .
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
The client is looking for an experienced GCP Data architect to join their Architecture team, as part of the current transformation programme. The successful candidate will design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on GCP. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with IT Business Leads and Business Stakeholders to develop, maintain and curate the IT Roadmaps across multiple domains
- Contribute to IT Architectural bodies (Design Authority and Architecture Review Board) ensuring all solutions adhere to customer’s standards, principles, security, operational and regulatory requirements
- Provide technology thought leadership and guidance to IT Business Leads and Business teams
- Conduct Business Capability assessments and maps these to current and future state IT solutions
- Work as part of multiple delivery teams / scrums to ensure projects are delivered to a high standard of quality within the agreed time, scope and cost measures
- Seek opportunities to simplify, automate, rationalise and improve the efficiency of IT solutions
- Create application upgrade, migration and retirement strategies that align to the plan whilst ensuring dependencies, risks are identified and mitigated accordingly
- Communicate architecture solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences ensuring the communication style used is appropriate for the intended audience
- Engage with the wider IT teams to foster innovation, deliver proof of concept solutions and acceptance of new technologies
- Keep abreast of technology trends in Insurance
- Design IT solution architectures with corresponding technology phase transitions and migration plans where necessary
Key Requirements
- Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, hosting patterns & services (especially GCP), cloud security, resilience, and operational excellence
- Strong understanding of microservices, containerisation, cloud native, data architectures and event-driven design concepts
- Strong understanding of API standards, security, networking, ingress/egress patterns & FinOps
- Strong understanding of data technologies – SQL/NoSQL, Big Data
- Experience working with enterprise-wide cloud patterns – networks, security, ingress/egress
- Knowledge of ML/AI and data capabilities in GCP
- Strong experience & knowledge of some key LBG development technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Python)
- Knowledge of the SDLC & SRE
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in the Banking & Finance industry/ proven track record as a Solution Architect in Commercial Insurance Enterprises
- Cloud Certifications, particularly GCP
- Preferable experience with ML/AI & Data Tooling in GCP
- Experience in Agile / iterative design working practices
Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone.
If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
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