GCP Architect

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: GCP Data Architect Location: Toronto ON
Work Model: Hybrid (4 days onsite per week)
Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract

We are actively hiring a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Architect to design implement and manage scalable secure and high-performing data solutions on GCP. The ideal candidate will have strong experience building modern data platforms leveraging services such as BigQuery Dataflow Dataproc and Cloud Storage.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with business and functional teams to gather requirements and evaluate integration impacts on the overall enterprise architecture.
Define and document technical architecture clarify solution requirements and address design gaps.
Develop and implement solutions aligned with established architectural standards and quality frameworks.
Establish development standards reusable templates and best practices to ensure consistency and scalability.
Automate routine development and operational activities using scripts and reusable frameworks.
Design comprehensive end-to-end data architectures on GCP focusing on scalability performance reliability and cost optimization.
Define and implement best practices for data governance metadata management security and compliance.

Data Management & Governance

Build and enforce frameworks for data quality lineage cataloging and access control.
Work closely with stakeholders to ensure governance policies are consistently applied across data pipelines.

Big Data & ETL/ELT Architecture

Design and optimize data ingestion and transformation pipelines using GCP tools such as Dataflow Dataproc BigQuery Pub/Sub and Cloud Composer.
Ensure efficient processing and storage of large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
Architect and manage Databricks environments for advanced analytics and machine learning use cases.
Optimize Spark-based processing workloads for performance and cost efficiency.

Required Qualifications

Demonstrated experience as a Cloud Architect preferably within GCP environments.
Strong understanding of data architecture principles and governance models.
Hands-on expertise with big data technologies including Spark Hadoop Kafka and Databricks.
Proven experience designing and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines.
In-depth knowledge of core GCP services including BigQuery Dataflow Dataproc Pub/Sub Cloud Storage IAM and Cloud Composer.
Strong analytical communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
Familiarity with data privacy and compliance standards (e.g. GDPR HIPAA).
Understanding of DevOps methodologies and CI/CD practices for data engineering solutions.

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Job Title: GCP Data Architect Location: Toronto ON Work Model: Hybrid (4 days onsite per week) Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract We are actively hiring a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Architect to design implement and manage scalable secure and high-performing data solutions on GCP. The...