GCP Architect

• Own the design and lead a team or effort
• Set technical direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable
• May have a team of people to support, leading a development team, or else you could be working across multiple teams, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work
• Own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place
• Be one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project
• Coaching and mentoring the team
• Involvement in shaping proposals (working with a bid team) to create approaches or solutions
• Add valuable contributions during presentations to clients in a formal selection process
• Play an active role in account management

• Background as a software or DevOps engineer using languages and tools such as Java, Python, Kubernetes and Terraform
• Understanding of cloud technologies, architectures and techniques
• Experience in designing and delivering solutions on Google Cloud, perhaps using serverless products such as Cloud Run, or infrastructure such as Compute Engine and GKE, AI such as Vertex AI, ADK or Agent Engine, as well as data services such as: BigQuery, Spanner, Dataflow, Composer, Bigtable or CloudSQL
• Ideally qualified to Google Certified Cloud Architect, Data Engineer or Cloud Developer level
• Experience working in an agile development team applying design and development practices such as: Agile sprints to deliver incremental builds
• Defining architectural and software design patterns
• Designing for scalability, high availability and disaster recovery requirements
• Secure development and architectural practices, as well as knowledge of non-functional considerations
• Working alongside others in the team to develop, design, elaborate user stories and deliver estimates during story pointing
• TDD and/or BDD approaches, considering outcome at design
• Knowledge of test automation
• Developing code and pipelines using CI/CD tools
• Using tools such as JIRA for tracking progress and traceability
• Reviewing code with your teammates to provide assurance on a release
• Resolving root cause analysis and troubleshooting solutions
• Using fundamental tools and languages E.g. Google Cloud SDK, SQL, Linux, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, HTML and CSS
• Experience with different types of database, e.g. Google Cloud Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable and BigQuery, as well as MongoDB, MySQL, Flink, Cassandra, SQL Server, Postgres
• Developing schema for supporting business logic and data
• Experience with Microservices architecture, including containers and serverless implementation. E.g. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions (GCP)
• Experience with Machine learning tools and techniques, e.g. Auto ML, Tensorflow, Natural Language, Vision AI
• Expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions
• Experience of the development process, it’s likely you’ll own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place
• Comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project
• Coaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role
• Involvement in shaping proposals (working with a bid team) will assist to create approaches or solutions, and perhaps you may also add valuable contributions during presentations to clients in a formal selection process
• Play an active role in account management

Good hands-on experience

• Private medical insurance
• Interest free season ticket loan
• 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Company pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Life and Income protection insurance
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn, childcare benefits)
• Voluntary benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)