Description

Role Overview
We are seeking a client-facing Lead GCP Architect to support the adoption of a new enterprise GCP platform by application teams. The role requires a hands-on architect who can provide solution leadership, guide application onboarding and modernization, address architecture and connectivity challenges, and influence platform evolution through best practices, architecture patterns, and thought leadership.
The architect will work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, Program Management, and Application teams to drive successful adoption and implementation of cloud-native solutions on GCP.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate