Queen Square Recruitment
GCP Data Architect
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GCP Data Architect
💰 £480/day (Inside IR35)
📍 Bristol (2 days pw onsite)
📅 8-Month Contract
Our client is looking for an experienced GCP Data Architect / Solution Architect to design and govern enterprise-scale cloud and data solutions supporting a major finance transformation programme. This role combines strategic solution architecture with hands-on data architecture expertise. You’ll shape scalable GCP data platforms, define enterprise data models and patterns, and work closely with engineering, platform and architecture teams to ensure solutions are resilient, secure, governed and cost-effective.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end architecture for cloud-native data solutions on GCP.
- Design solutions using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Composer, Cloud Functions and IAM.
- Define conceptual, logical and physical data models for financial, regulatory and operational data.
- Establish patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption.
- Define architecture principles covering metadata, lineage, reference data and data stewardship.
- Translate complex business and finance requirements into scalable enterprise data models.
- Design cost-optimised, scalable and high-performing GCP workloads.
- Develop reusable architecture patterns, blueprints and engineering standards.
- Create architectural roadmaps supporting quarterly planning and wider finance transformation objectives.
- Ensure architecture aligns with security, data governance and compliance standards.
- Guide engineering teams through solution design and iterative delivery.
- Participate in architecture boards, design forums and technical governance.
- Influence CTO architects, data platform teams, product owners and transformation stakeholders.
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Essential Skills
- Strong GCP Solution/Data Architecture experience.
- Deep expertise across BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, IAM and Cloud Composer.
- Strong experience designing enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.
- Advanced data modelling, including 3NF, dimensional modelling and/or Data Vault.
- Strong understanding of metadata, data lineage and data governance.
- Experience with reference data and data stewardship frameworks.
- Strong understanding of data ingestion, transformation and consumption patterns.
- Experience designing secure, scalable and cost-efficient cloud architectures.
- Ability to define reusable architecture patterns and blueprints.
- Strong architecture governance and stakeholder management experience.
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Finance Data Experience
- Strong experience working with finance data flows is particularly important, including:
- General Ledger / Ledger data
- Management Information (MI)
- Reconciliation
- Financial and regulatory reporting
- Finance transformation programmes
Desirable Skills
- Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA).
- Google Professional Data Engineer (PDE).
- TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
- CI/CD using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Data quality and lineage tooling.
- Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture.
- Previous banking / financial services experience.
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