We are looking for an experienced GCP Data Architects to join a leading AI & Data practice, designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .

Working across complex cloud, data, analytics, and AI transformation programs, you will engage with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and governance teams to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and analytics-ready data platform solutions. This is an opportunity to lead solution design, architecture governance, and technical delivery while helping organisations modernise their data capabilities using GCP-native technologies.

Contract Summary

- Employment Type: Permanent OR 12 month contract
- Clearance: Baseline or above
- Work Model: Hybrid
- Location: Melbourne (Preference) will consider Canberra and Brisbane

Responsibilities

- Engage with business and technology stakeholders to gather, analyse, and translate business requirements into scalable GCP data platform solutions.
- Lead architecture workshops, technical discovery sessions, and solution design activities.
- Develop high-level and detailed solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards, security, and operational best practices.
- Design enterprise data models supporting reporting, analytics, AI, and OLAP workloads.
- Architect batch and real-time data ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelines.
- Optimise SQL-based data processing solutions and analytics platforms.
- Design and implement enterprise data governance capabilities, including metadata management, data lineage, data quality, and data cataloguing.
- Apply cloud networking, IAM, encryption, and security controls across enterprise data platform implementations.
- Produce Solution Architecture Documents, High-Level Designs (HLDs), Detailed Designs (DDs), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and Technical Options Papers.
- Present architecture solutions and recommendations to Architecture Review Boards and governance forums.




- Provide technical leadership and architecture assurance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Collaborate with data engineers, cloud architects, security specialists, and delivery teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Contribute to enterprise architecture standards, governance frameworks, and strategic technology direction.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across architecture and delivery teams.

Skills & Experience

- Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .
- Strong expertise across GCP services including BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Dataplex, IAM , and related cloud services.
- Advanced SQL development skills with strong dimensional and analytical data modelling experience.
- Proven experience designing enterprise analytics and OLAP platforms.
- Experience designing scalable batch and streaming data integration and transformation pipelines.
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data lineage, data quality, and data catalogue frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of GCP networking, VPC architecture, IAM, encryption, access management, and cloud security principles.
- Demonstrated experience producing Solution Architecture Documents, High-Level Designs (HLDs), Detailed Designs (DDs), Technical Options Papers, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Experience presenting architecture solutions to Architecture Review Boards, Design Authorities, or governance committees.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, consulting, communication, and workshop facilitation skills.

Highly Regarded

- Experience delivering enterprise data platforms within government or highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of Data Mesh and modern data architecture patterns.
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Experience with DevOps , CI/CD , and DataOps practices.
- Experience mentoring engineers, architects, or technical leads.
- Google Cloud Qualified Data Engineer and/or Professional Cloud Architect certifications.

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