Job Description n GCP BigQuery Architect n Title: GCP BigQuery Architect n Location : Manchester – 2 days onsite per week n Duration : 6 – 12 Months Rolling Contract n Budget : £450 per day, all inclusive n Inside IR35 n We are looking for an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud. n The role will focus on BigQuery, cloud migration, data warehousing and modern data engineering, working closely with business and technical stakeholders. n Key Responsibilities n n Design scalable, secure and high-performance GCP/BigQuery data architectures n Lead migration of Legacy data warehouses and ETL workloads to GCP n Define end-to-end architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage, governance and reporting n Design and optimise BigQuery schemas, partitioning, clustering, performance and cost n Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews and stakeholder guidance n Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and cloud governance best practices n n Mandatory n n 10+ years’ IT experience, including 5+ years in GCP data engineering/architecture n Strong BigQuery architecture, optimisation and administration n Hands-on experience with Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run n Strong SQL, data modelling and data warehousing n Proven experience migrating Legacy/on-premise platforms to GCP n Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git and DevOps n Good understanding of IAM, security, networking and cloud governance n Experience integrating Looker, Tableau or Power BI with BigQuery n Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills n n Bonus n n Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Cloud Architect certification n Experience with Dataplex, Data Catalog or Vertex AI n Experience within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes n
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