Principal GCP Data Architect

📋 Description Define the long-term roadmap and architectural strategy for enterprise data platforms on Google Design and oversee modern, self-service data architectures that enable decentralized teams while Lead complex, end-to-end enterprise cloud migrations, including large-scale migrations from AWS to Architect and implement highly scalable data ecosystems capable of supporting petabyte-scale Establish robust data governance and security frameworks covering IAM, VPC Service Controls, data Drive Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform or Pulumi to create scalable, repeatable 🎯 Requirements Bring at least 18–20 years of professional experience across data engineering, data warehousing Have at least 6 years of dedicated experience working with Google Cloud Platform. Have worked exclusively with GCP within your relevant cloud experience. Hold an active Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification. Demonstrate expert-level proficiency across the GCP data stack, including BigQuery, BigLake Have experience integrating Confluent and Kafka with enterprise data platforms and streaming 🎁 Benefits Annual compensation of $160,000–$220,000. Full-time employment. Remote work opportunity within the United States. Opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise data architecture and cloud transformation Exposure to advanced GCP technologies spanning data engineering, analytics, AI, streaming Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide architecture standards and long-term data platform