Solution Architect, Utilities, Google Cloud Platform
Solution Architect, Utilities, Google Cloud Platform
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Job Description
Are you ready to make an impact
West Monroe is looking for a GCP Solutions Architect with proven experience designing and implementing cloud-based data and analytics platforms. This role will focus on supporting our Energy & Utilities clients as they evaluate leverage migrate to and build on Google Cloud. From day one at West Monroe our people have the opportunity to make a meaningful hands-on impact for their clients while growing their careers through focused professional development and continuous learning.
What Will You Be Doing
Client Delivery
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) and solution architect on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies guiding client stakeholders through design decisions tradeoffs and migration strategies.
- Compare and contrast Azure AWS and GCP capabilities (cost performance compliance analytics/AI) to support informed decision-making.
- Lead the architecture design and migration approach for client workloads into GCP including hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.
- Lead the greenfield build of modern data platforms that enable analytics AI and agentic solutions on GCP by developing architectures that leverage GCP services to support use case specific requirements.
- Understand key differences and overlap in modern data platform capabilities when considering Databricks to complement Google Cloud solutions
- Lead platform cost modeling to provide guidance on O&M budgeting and oversee efforts to identify and capture cost savings in existing capabilities
- Collaborate with data engineers developers and business SMEs to ensure architecture aligns with business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Provide hands-on technical guidance on cloud-native services (BigQuery BigTable Dataflow Pub/Sub Looker Vertex AI etc.) as well as security networking and governance.
- Understand the connection between data governance data engineering analytics/AI and agentic solutions from a holistic delivery perspective.
- Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership driving alignment across business and IT stakeholders.
Practice Development
- Contribute to the Energy & Utilities practice and Technology & Experience Discipline by developing methodologies accelerators and best practices for GCP adoption in regulated utility environments.
- Promote thought leadership around cloud modernization data platforms and AI/ML use cases enabled by GCP.
- Mentor junior team members and foster a collaborative learning-oriented culture within West Monroe.
Business Development
- Partner with account teams to understand business needs and shape them into technical roadmaps proposals and solutions.
- Contribute to client pursuits as a GCP SME including crafting architecture options estimates and risk assessments.
- Build and maintain a professional network in the utilities and cloud ecosystems strengthening West Monroes reputation in the market.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field (advanced degrees a plus).
- 8 years of work experience including at least 3 years designing and implementing cloud solutions on GCP.
- Strong understanding of cloud data and analytics architectures including batch and streaming data pipelines data warehouses (BigQuery) and AI/ML services (Vertex AI Agentspace).
- Experience with Azure cloud services and Databricks platform ability to objectively evaluate Azure vs. GCP tradeoffs inclusive of Databricks deployments
- Proven success leading large-scale cloud migrations or platform builds (design through implementation).
- Familiarity with regulatory/compliance frameworks relevant to utilities (e.g. NERC CIP data residency security standards).
- Possess at least one Google Cloud Professional certification: Data Engineer Cloud Database Engineer Cloud Architect Machine Learning Engineer
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to document technical architectures and explain approach and rational to technical resources.
- Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Willingness to travel to client sites as needed (up to 5075% annually).
Nice to have:
- Experience working with large regulated utilities (familiarity with NERC CIP PSC and related compliance requirements).
- Databricks certification (e.g. Data Engineer Associate/Professional Machine Learning Associate/Professional).
Based on pay transparency guidelines the salaryrange for this role canvary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (seetable below). Information on our competitive total rewards packageincluding our bonus structure and benefits ishere. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geographyexperience skills education and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical dental vision and basic life insurance. Employeesare able toenroll in our companys 401k planpurchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible toreceive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time offand ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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The combination of business and technology is not new but how we bring them together is unique. Were fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
At West Monroe we zero in on the heart of the opportunity getting to results faster and preparing people for whats next.
Youll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. Were right there in the room with you co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe collaboration isnt a lofty promise but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
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Employment Type
Full Time
