GCP Query Architect
Listed on 2026-10-06
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Data Engineering
Spencer Rose are urgently seeking an experienced GCP Big Query Architect to work for our Banking client for a minimum 6 month contract (extensions highly likely), to start ASAP. Hybrid, 2 days a week in South West office.
Start: ASAP (allowing up to 2 weeks for vetting and onboarding)
Day Rate: £500pd Inside IR35
Hybrid: 2 days a week in the office
Duration: 6 months initially
You must have strong expertise in designing, architecting, and delivering enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Big Query, cloud data migration, data warehousing, and analytics solutions while working closely with client stakeholders to define architecture and drive successful delivery.
Key Responsibilities- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data architectures on GCP, with Big Query as the core data warehouse.
- Define end-to-end data architecture, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and reporting.
- Lead migration of Legacy data warehouses and ETL workloads to GCP and Big Query.
- Design optimized Big Query schemas, partitioning, clustering, and performance tuning strategies.
- Develop data pipelines using Cloud Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage.
- Work with client business and technical teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable cloud solutions.
- Establish best practices for data governance, security, metadata management, and data quality.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards using IAM, encryption, audit logging, and networking best practices.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor development teams, and perform architecture and code reviews.
- Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Support solution estimation, proposal preparation, technical presentations, and client workshops.
- Drive performance optimization, cost optimization, and operational excellence across GCP services.
Ideally, you will hold the relevant GCP certifications.
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