Google Cloud Platform Architect

Role: Google Cloud Platform Architect
Location: Irving, TX (oniste role)

We are seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Architect to lead the architecture and delivery of large scale data platform modernization initiatives for a leading Telecom client. The role is responsible for defining end to end solution architecture on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), driving legacy data warehouse modernization (including Informatica, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata to Google Cloud Platform patterns), and providing technical leadership across design, build, and migration phases. The architect will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineering teams, security, and enterprise architecture to define target state architecture, govern standards, and mentor delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own end to end Google Cloud Platform data architecture, designing scalable, secure, and cost effective solutions.
• Architect solutions using BigQuery centric patterns, along with GCS, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Composer (Airflow) as applicable.
• Ensure alignment with Client specific enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Lead Teradata to Google Cloud Platform modernization/migration, translating legacy Teradata SQL, ETL, and workload patterns into cloud native designs.
• Drive data modeling and redesign where required to optimize for cloud performance and cost.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for BigQuery.
• Define and enforce partitioning, clustering, naming standards, and optimization techniques.
• Drive SQL performance tuning and cost optimization for BigQuery workloads.
• Collaborate with security teams on IAM based access control, data protection, and compliance.
• Define approaches for data quality, validation, reconciliation, metadata, and lineage.
• Translate business requirements into High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) artifacts.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and provide ongoing architectural guidance.
• Support estimation, solutioning, and technical inputs for planning and executive communication.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in Data Architecture / Solution Architecture / DW Architecture roles.
• Strong hands on expertise in Google Cloud Platform, including:
  • BigQuery (data modeling, optimization, cost controls)
  • Dataflow / Dataproc / Pub Sub
  • Cloud Storage
  • Composer (Airflow) for orchestration
• Strong SQL expertise, including complex joins, window functions, and performance tuning.
• Solid grounding in data warehousing fundamentals:
  • Dimensional modeling (facts & dimensions)
  • ETL/ELT patterns
  • Metadata, lineage, and data quality
• Experience working with large enterprise data environments and multi team delivery models.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate architecture trade offs to both technical and business stakeholders.