GCP Data Architect

Job Title - GCP Data Architect

Experience - 15 to 20 years

Location - Bangalore / Chennai / Hyderabad / Noida

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership : Contribute to architectural decisions and support the Architecture Lead in defining and delivering technology strategy.

Roadmaps & Patterns : Help create and maintain architecture roadmaps, guardrails, and patterns, collaborating with colleagues across the business.

Governance & Compliance : Prepare architectural artefacts and documentation to support governance and compliance.

Stakeholder Engagement : Build strong relationships with business, engineering, and CTO stakeholders.

Continuous Learning : Maintain up-to-date technical skills and stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.

External Research : Conduct external research to inform business design and enable corporate strategy.

Team Collaboration : Work with a team of architects to ensure alignment with group and technology strategy.

Agile Delivery : Participate in agile ceremonies and support iterative delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

Enterprise Architecture : Strong experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and exposure to modern technologies.

Cloud Platforms : Expertise in cloud platforms, especially GCP and hybrid hosting architectures.

APIs : Experience with APIs.

Data Strategies : Knowledge of data lifecycle, ETL pipeline, data modeling, data governance and security, data lineage

Technology Sustainability : Awareness of sustainable technology practices.

Payments & Digital Transformation : Experience in payments, digital transformation, and retail banking.

Communication : Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Collaboration : Ability to build trusted relationships across engineering, product, and business teams.

Continuous Improvement : Commitment to process improvements and best practices.

Innovation : Passion for exploring emerging technologies and assessing their business impact.

Core competencies

Governance, Security and Audit compliance

Establish cloud governance : org hierarchy, folders / projects, billing, quotas, and guardrails.

Define IAM models, KMS key management, secrets management, encryption, and data classification.

Ensure adherence to regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) and internal risk controls.

Enterprise cloud strategy

Define enterprise cloud strategy and roadmap for modernization, data platform evolution, and AI / ML enablement.

Establish reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails (landing zones, networking, IAM, security baselines).

Architecture leadership

Design end-to-end architectures leveraging GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub / Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Vertex AI).

Ensure non-functional requirements (availability, performance, reliability, resilience, observability) and DR targets.

Promote event-driven and serverless patterns; drive API-first design.

Stakeholder enabling and management

Influence senior stakeholders; translate strategy into executable roadmaps.

Run architecture reviews and publish accelerators and reusable reference implementations.

Mentor solution architects and engineering teams; support capability building and hiring.

Typical Certifications & Qualifications

TOGAF, Zachman, PMP, Certifications

Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM)

Experience in banking, financial services, and cloud-based data platforms