GCP BigQuery Architect – Data Platform Lead (Hybrid)

Spencer Rose Ltd; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Spencer Rose is urgently seeking an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to work for our Banking client on a 6-month contract, with extensions likely. Start ASAP; vetting/onboarding up to 2 weeks. Hybrid: 2 days a week in South West office.

You will design, architect and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on GCP, with BigQuery at the core, migrating legacy warehouses and building analytics solutions while collaborating with stakeholders and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong BigQuery design, architecture, and delivery capabilities.
• Experience migrating legacy data warehouses to GCP.
• Ability to work with client stakeholders to define architecture.
• Experience with IAM, encryption, and security best practices.
• Willingness to lead, mentor teams and conduct architecture reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure GCP data architectures with BigQuery at core.
• Define end-to-end data architecture including ingestion, storage, governance.
• Lead migration of legacy data warehouses to GCP/BigQuery.
• Develop data pipelines using Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub.
• Provide technical leadership and perform architecture/code reviews.
• Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD and IaC (Terraform).
• Participate in estimation, proposals, and client workshops.
• Drive performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence across GCP services.

Skills

GCP BigQuery

Data Architecture

Cloud Data Migration

Data Warehousing

Analytics Solutions

Technical Leadership

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Cloud Dataflow

Dataproc

Cloud Composer

Cloud Functions

Pub/Sub

Cloud Storage

Job description

Spencer Rose is urgently seeking an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to work for our Banking client on a 6-month contract, with extensions likely. Start ASAP; vetting/onboarding up to 2 weeks. Hybrid: 2 days a week in South West office.

You will design, architect and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on GCP, with BigQuery at the core, migrating legacy warehouses and building analytics solutions while collaborating with stakeholders and engineering teams.