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).
- Robust 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 Professional Data Engineer and/or Professional Cloud Architect certifications.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Data Architect (Melbourne)
🏢 Libran IT
📍 Melbourne