Role Name: Google Cloud Platform Architect
Work site: Nashville, TN (Remote)
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
Required Skills
- Google Cloud Platform expertise (ideally Professional Data Engineer certified)
- Strong SQL and Python/Scala; experience with Spark/Beam
- Hands-on with Google Cloud Platform services, IaC (Terraform), and CI/CD
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Proactive and solution-oriented
**Nice to Have**
- Experience with Looker, Vertex AI, or multi-cloud environments
- Knowledge of real-time data tools (Bigtable, Firestore)
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data architectures on Google Cloud Platform, aligning solutions with business goals.
- Design end-to-end batch and streaming architectures using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, and Cloud Storage
- Build scalable data models for analytics and ML
- Develop and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Data Fusion, Composer (Airflow), and dbt
- Implement security and governance (IAM, VPC-SC, DLP, encryption) ensuring compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)
- Optimize performance and cost (BigQuery tuning, monitoring)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable analytics and AI/ML use cases