Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery) in London

Energy Jobline ZR; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy job platform is seeking a Data Solutions Architect in London, focusing on GCP/Airflow/BigQuery. The role involves designing data architecture, supporting the engineering team, and ensuring compliance with data governance. Candidates must have strong experience in GCP and excellent communication skills. The position is permanent, offering £90,000-100,000 plus benefits.

Benefits

Excellent benefits and pension scheme

Qualifications

• Experience as a Data Solutions Architect, primarily in architecture work.
• Exceptional communication skills to engage with all levels of stakeholders.
• Must have experience with GCP, GBQ, Airflow, and DBT/Fivetran.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage data architecture for GCP-based systems.
• Support data engineering team in implementing changes and monitoring.
• Work with governance and security teams to ensure compliance.
• Oversee ETL process implementations using Terraform, dbt, and Airflow.
• Promote DataOps practices in automation and monitoring.
• Assess and improve data architecture for performance and security.

Skills

Data platform engineering (GCP or AWS or Looker)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google BigQuery (GBQ)

Airflow

DBT/Fivetran

Exceptional communication skills

Job description

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Job Description

Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery)

London - Kings Cross (onsite 2-3 day per week)

Permanent role

£90,000-100,000 per annum plus excellent benefits and pension scheme.

No sponsorship offered by hiring company

As a Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery) you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing our data management infrastructure, ensuring it supports our strategic goals and operational needs, specifically in relation to our Google Cloud (GCP) data platform.

About the Role

• End-to-end data architecture design, evolving our existing GCP-based data platform architecture to meet strategic goals whilst enabling the platform to be scalable, robust and secure
• Support the data engineering team with implementing architectural, process or pattern changes, implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies for the data platform to ensure high reliability and quick incident response.
• Work with data governance, security and privacy teams to embed their requirements into solutions and repeatable data engineering patterns.
• Oversee and provide guidance to the data teams in implementing ETL processes using Terraform, dbt and Airflow to streamline data flow.
• Champion DataOps practices across the data team, focusing on automated testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and monitoring for data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Continuously assess and improve the data architecture to enhance performance, scalability, and security.

Experience required

• Experience as a Data Solutions Architect (this role is 70% architecture work - 30% hands-on Data engineering)
• Exceptional communication skills to speak to teams and stakeholders of all levels
• Previous experience in data platform engineering (GCP or AWS or Looker)
• Must have previous exposure with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google BigQuery (GBQ), Airflow and DBT/Fivetran

If interested in this Data Solutions Architect (GCP/Airflow/BigQuery) please apply with latest CV clearly showing experience with skills listed above.

No sponsorship offered by hiring company so applicants must have UK RTW.

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