Data Platform Solution Architect (GCP)

Quick Facts

• Role: Hands-on Data Platform Solution Architect (GCP)

Description

You will design and implement scalable data use cases on a GCP data platform, translating business requirements into end-to-end architectures. The role combines solution architecture, technical leadership, and hands-on data engineering, including building reusable platform components. You’ll ensure security, governance, reliability, performance, and cost while troubleshooting production pipeline issues.

Responsibilities

• Translate business use cases into scalable technical solutions on GCP
• Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines (ingestion, storage, transformation, consumption)
• Select appropriate GCP services, integration patterns, and processing approaches
• Build and configure infrastructure to deploy use cases on the data platform
• Develop reusable components and patterns across use cases
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment pipelines
• Ensure solutions meet security, data governance, reliability, performance, and cost requirements
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure and data pipelines
• Provide technical direction and support other engineers in architectural decisions
• Identify recurring requirements and convert them into reusable platform capabilities
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and evolution of the data platform

Requirements

• Senior-level experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, or cloud solution architecture
• Proven hands-on production experience building data solutions on GCP
• Practical knowledge of BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run or Cloud SQL, and Cloud Composer or Apache Airflow
• Experience with Dataflow/Apache Beam/Dataproc/Apache Spark
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Experience with CI/CD for data and infrastructure deployments
• Strong knowledge of batch and event-driven ingestion patterns
• Experience designing data models, transformation pipelines, and orchestration workflows
• Understanding of GCP security: IAM, service accounts, networking, secrets management
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting production pipelines
• Ability to map business requirements to technical architecture and implementations
• Ability to evaluate scalability, performance, maintainability, and cost trade-offs
• Strong communication skills with technical and business stakeholders

Benefits

• Direct B2B contract
• Hybrid cooperation model (to be decided)