Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery)

Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery)

London - Kings Cross (onsite 2-3 day per week0

Permanent role

£90.000-100,000 per annum plus excellent benefits and pension scheme.

No sponsorship offered by hiring company

As a Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery) you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing our data management infrastructure, ensuring it supports our strategic goals and operational needs, specifically in relation to our Google Cloud (GCP) data platform.

About the Role

• End-to-end data architecture design, evolving our existing GCP-based data platform architecture to meet strategic goals whilst enabling the platform to be scalable, robust and secure
• Support the data engineering team with implementing architectural, process or pattern changes, implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies for the data platform to ensure high reliability and quick incident response.
• Work with data governance, security and privacy teams to embed their requirements into solutions and repeatable data engineering patterns.
• Oversee and provide guidance to the data teams in implementing ETL processes using Terraform, dbt and Airflow to streamline data flow.
• Champion DataOps practices across the data team, focusing on automated testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring for data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Continuously assess and improve the data architecture to enhance performance, scalability, and security.

Experience required:

• Experience as a Data Solutions Architect (this role is 70% architecture work - 30% hands-on Data engineering)
• Exceptional communication skills to speak to teams and stakeholders of all levels
• Previous experience in data platform engineering (GCP or AWS or Looker)
• Must have previous exposure with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google BigQuery (GBQ), Airflow and DBT/Fivetran

If interested in this Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery) please apply with latest CV clearly showing experience with skills listed above.

No sponsorship offered by hiring company so applicants must have UK RTW.

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