Role/Job Title- GCP Data Architect

Work Location - London (3 days Office)

The Role

We are seeking an experienced GCP Data Architect to join our Architecture team, as part of the current transformation programme. The successful candidate will design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on GCP. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT Business Leads and Business Stakeholders to develop, maintain and curate the IT Roadmaps across multiple domains
• Contribute to IT Architectural bodies (Design Authority and Architecture Review Board) ensuring all solutions adhere to customer’s standards, principles, security, operational and regulatory requirements
• Provide technology thought leadership and guidance to IT Business Leads and Business teams
• Conduct Business Capability assessments and map these to current and future state IT solutions
• Work as part of multiple delivery teams / scrums to ensure projects are delivered to a high standard of quality within the agreed time, scope, and cost measures
• Seek opportunities to simplify, automate, rationalise and improve the efficiency of IT solutions
• Create application upgrade, migration, and retirement strategies that align with the plan, ensuring dependencies and risks are identified and mitigated
• Communicate architecture solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences using appropriate communication styles
• Engage with wider IT teams to foster innovation, deliver proof of concept solutions, and support acceptance of new technologies
• Stay abreast of technology trends in Insurance, with a proven track record as a Solution Architect in Commercial Insurance Enterprises
• Demonstrate experience designing IT solution architectures with corresponding technology phase transitions and migration plans
  
  

Your Profile

Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience

• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, hosting patterns & services (especially GCP), cloud security, resilience, and operational excellence
• Strong understanding of microservices, containerisation, cloud native, data architectures, and event-driven design concepts
• Strong understanding of API standards, security, networking, ingress/egress patterns, and FinOps
• Strong understanding of data technologies – SQL/NoSQL, Big Data
• Experience working with enterprise-wide cloud patterns – networks, security, ingress/egress
• Knowledge of ML/AI and data capabilities in GCP
• Strong experience & knowledge of some key LBG development technologies (e.g., JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Python)
• Knowledge of the SDLC & SRE
  
  

Desirable Skills/Knowledge/Experience

• Experience in the Banking & Finance industry
• Cloud Certifications, particularly GCP
• Preferable experience with ML/AI & Data Tooling in GCP
• Experience in agile / iterative design working practices