GCP Data Architect - Bristol/London - £575/day - Inside IR35

GCP Data Architect - Bristol/London - £575/day - Inside IR35

We're recruiting for a GCP Solution Architect/Data Architect to design, govern, and deliver enterprise-scale data and cloud solutions across finance transformation programmes for a leading financial services organisation. This hybrid position combines strategic solution architecture with hands-on data architecture expertise, enabling resilient, scalable, and cost-effective data platforms aligned to enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture design for cloud-native data solutions on GCP, ensuring alignment with security, data governance, and compliance standards
• Drive iterative design practices, influencing product owners, engineering teams, and cross-platform stakeholders
• Develop architectural roadmaps supporting quarterly planning cycles and long-term finance transformation goals
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for financial, regulatory, and operational datasets
• Define ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption patterns; establish principles for metadata, lineage, reference data, and data stewardship
• Collaborate with SMEs to translate business requirements into scalable data models
• Architect solutions using GCP services including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Cloud Functions, and IAM
• Design cost-optimised workloads, implementing best practices for performance and scalability
• Support engineering teams with reusable patterns, blueprint architectures, and cloud engineering guidance
• Work with CTO architects, data platform teams, and transformation leads, participating in architecture boards, design forums, and technical governance committees

What You Will Ideally Bring

• Strong expertise in GCP architecture: BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, IAM, Composer
• Proven experience designing complex, cross-team, enterprise-scale solutions
• Advanced data modelling: 3NF, Data Vault, dimensional modelling
• Deep understanding of metadata, lineage, data governance, and reference data frameworks
• Strong experience with finance data flows - ledger, MI, reconciliation, and reporting
• Ability to lead engineering teams and drive architectural consistency
• Google Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) certification - preferred
• Google Professional Data Engineer (PDE) certification - preferred

Contract Details:

• Duration: 12 months
• Rate: £575/day - Inside IR35
• Location: Lonfdon/Bristol(Hybrid)