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Gcp Data Architect

Gcp Data Architect

HCLTechNarela, Republic Of India, IN
2 hours ago
Job description

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 intoexecutable 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
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