GCP Data Architect - Bristol/London - £575/day - Inside IR35
GCP Data Architect - Bristol/London - £575/day - Inside IR35
We're recruiting for a GCP Solution Architect/Data Architect to design, govern, and deliver enterprise-scale data and cloud solutions across finance transformation programmes for a leading financial services organisation. This hybrid position combines strategic solution architecture with hands-on data architecture expertise, enabling resilient, scalable, and cost-effective data platforms aligned to enterprise standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end architecture design for cloud-native data solutions on GCP, 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 including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Cloud Functions, and IAM
- Design cost-optimised workloads, implementing 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, participating in architecture boards, design forums, and technical governance committees
What You Will Ideally Bring
- Strong expertise in GCP architecture: BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, IAM, Composer
- Proven experience designing complex, cross-team, enterprise-scale solutions
- Advanced data modelling: 3NF, Data Vault, dimensional modelling
- 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
- Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) certification - preferred
- Google Professional Data Engineer (PDE) certification - preferred
Contract Details:
- Duration: 12 months
- Rate: £575/day - Inside IR35
- Location: Lonfdon/Bristol(Hybrid)