Support application teams in adopting enterprise GCP platforms and architectural standards.
Define and review solution architectures aligned with business, security, and operational requirements.
Provide guidance on application modernization, cloud-native architectures, integration patterns, and data ecosystem adoption.
Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to resolve architecture, networking, security, and implementation challenges.
Conduct architecture reviews, technical workshops, and design governance activities.
Develop architectural patterns, reference solutions, best practices, and point-of-view (POV) documents to mature platform adoption.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across architecture and engineering teams.
Required Skills
Strong GCP architecture and implementation experience with services such as Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Load Balancing, container-based workloads, and cloud-native application architectures.
Strong networking expertise including Shared VPC, Private Service Access (PSA), Private Google Access (PGA), Private Service Connect (PSC), VPC architecture, hybrid connectivity, and enterprise networking patterns.
Strong architecture and solutioning capabilities across application modernization, cloud-native architecture, application maturity assessments, event-driven architectures, integration architecture, infrastructure architecture, data ecosystem integration, and designing solutions that meet security, scalability, availability, performance, and resiliency requirements.
Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Program Management, Platform Engineering, and Application Development teams, with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
Demonstrated ownership, proactive problem-solving, independent delivery, and strong communication skills.
Preferred Skills
Exposure to DevSecOps, SRE, Observability, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Experience
18+ years of IT experience with significant architecture responsibilities.
7+ years of GCP architecture and implementation experience.
Proven experience in client-facing consulting, cloud adoption, and modernization programs