GCP Solution Architect

Total Experience: 10 years

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Architect.

Responsibilities of Role:

1. Provide the architecture leadership mentoring escalation and resource allocation to the Fraud architecture team
2. Accountable for their teams end to end solution architecture strategy and designs; ensuring the creation of strategically aligned cost effective solutions that adhere to platform roadmaps and overall enterprise architecture.
3. Has good data architecture capability: conceptual/logical modelling data flows governance and designing for analytics/network analysis.
4. Analyse and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance reliability and cost efficiency. Working closely with business and senior technology stakeholders providing architecture direction and input to business strategy
5. Help technical team for build and implementing key solutions and business logic.
6. Able to manage risk including timely and effective management and escalation of risks and issues
7. Ensure relevant architecture governance and standards are met
8. Partner with external suppliers to define architecture patterns and integration approaches
9. Stay up to date with technology trends and communicate to peers and stakeholders
10. Desired to have experience with graph/network analysis platforms or graph databases (where relevant to the vendor product).

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

1. Extensive Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
   • Strong expertise in GCP services such as Compute Engine Cloud Storage Pub/Sub and Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cloud SQL Bigdata BigQuery.
   • Good understanding of GCP networking including VPC design subnets firewalls and hybrid connectivity (e.g. VPN Interconnect).
   • Knowledge of serverless technologies such as Cloud Functions and Cloud Run.
2. Cloud Architecture Design:
   • Have experience of designing scalable secure and cost-effective cloud architectures.
   • Experience in creating high-level and detailed architecture diagrams including multi-region and hybrid cloud setups.
   • Proficiency in designing solutions for high availability disaster recovery and fault tolerance.
3. Data Engineering and Analytics:
   • Strong knowledge of data processing and analytics tools such as BigQuery Dataflow Dataproc and Cloud Composer.
   • Experience in designing data pipelines for batch and streaming data processing.
   • Familiarity with data modeling ETL/ELT processes and data warehousing concepts.
4. Security and Compliance:
   • Strong understanding of GCP security best practices including IAM encryption and key management (Cloud KMS).
   • Experience in implementing compliance standards such as GDPR HIPAA or PCI DSS on GCP.
5. Performance Optimization:
   • Ability to optimize cloud resources for cost and performance.
   • Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting using tools like Stackdriver (Cloud Monitoring and Logging).
6. Collaboration and Communication:
   • Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers data engineers and business stakeholders.
   • Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
7. Experience:
   • Lead architect experience on major projects or programmes
   • Experience of Retail and commercial Banking (Payments Cards and onboarding). Customer and staff channel is relevant to the role.
   • Experience of working in international or global projects preferred
   • Experience architecting application solutions with medium to large application integrations involved.