Managing Consultant - C&M - Google Cloud

PA Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for you and family

25 days annual leave + Christmas Eve半‑

Generous pension scheme

Community and charity initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Cycle to work and give as you earn

Job summary

PA Consulting, within our Google Alliance team in the UK, is seeking a GCP Technical Lead. The role focuses on delivering GCP-based solutions with hands-on leadership across multiple teams and projects. You will drive architecture decisions, DevSecOps practices, and client engagements while mentoring colleagues.

Expect a hybrid work model with in-office/client-site days and a strong emphasis on learning, certification, and sharing knowledge across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and deep expertise in multiple GCP services.
• Strong understanding of architectural principles including microservices, event-driven architectures and message queues.
• DevOps experience using Google tools (Cloud Build) and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a GCP Technical Lead and SME for delivering GCP solutions.
• Set direction and own outcomes and deliverables.
• Lead a development team or provide centralised expertise across teams.
• Lead higher-level architectural discussions.
• Own or support DevSecOps processes across teams.
• Engage with client as main point of engagement.
• Coaching and mentoring the team.
• Play active role in technical account management.
• Design GCP-enabled solutions across industries.
• Develop further GCP certifications.
• Maintain immersive, sleeves-up working week.
• Client-facing and empowered to achieve best outcomes.
• Manage time and diary with work-life balance autonomy.

Skills

GCP

Microservices

Event-driven

DevOps

Python

NodeJS

Bash

APIs

Security

Communication

Tools

Apigee

Terraform

Cloud Build

Kubernetes

Job description

Salary: £52,000 - 92,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need experience with Google Cloud Platform and deep expertise in one or more of the listed areas: serverless (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions), Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, VPC networks and Service Perimeters, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner and Firestore, API management (including Apigee or Cloud Endpoints), data analytics services (including Dataproc, Dataflow, Data Fusion and Cloud Composer), and security controls (including Cloud IAM, PAM, VPC Service Controls and Security Command Centre).
• We need a sound understanding of architectural principles including microservices patterns, event-driven architectures and message queues, relational and non-relational databases, development and/or scripting (for example Python, Node, Bash), and security best practices for access control, data protection and communications.
• We would be thrilled if you also had knowledge of other cloud platforms.
• We would be thrilled if you also had automation DevOps experience using Google technology such as Cloud Build and open source tools such as Terraform.
• We are looking for an experienced person to join our Google Alliance team.
• We expect you to be pragmatic and to understand that building a platform is only part of cloud engineering.
• We expect you to communicate clearly with clients and peers in written, meeting, and workshop contexts.
• We expect you to be a confident problem solver and troubleshooter.
• We expect you to be confident and generous in sharing your specialist knowledge, ideas, and solutions.
• We expect you to know when a platform is fit for purpose.
• We expect you to be constantly learning and able to make others better by teaching and inspiring.
• We expect you to protect and enhance our reputation and credibility.
• We would love to hear from you even if you do not tick every box.

Responsibilities:

• We need you to serve as a GCP Technical Lead and subject matter expert for delivering solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• We need you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving outcomes and deliverables.
• You may lead a development team, support a team, or provide centralised expertise across multiple teams on a larger programme.
• We need you to lead higher-level architectural discussions.
• We need you to own or support DevSecOps processes across one or multiple teams, building strong principles and robust methods and patterns.
• We need you to have regular conversations with the client and act as one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project.
• Coaching and mentoring the team will be important.
• You will play an active role in technical account management.
• You will design ingenious GCP-enabled solutions and services for clients across industry sectors.
• You will learn and grow with our support as you further develop your specialisations and increase your GCP certifications.
• We expect a sleeves-up, fully associated, and immersive working week.
• All our people are client facing and empowered to achieve the best outcome for clients.
• We are guided by client work and needs, but you will have autonomy to manage your time and diary for work/life balance.

Technologies:

• API
• Apigee
• BigQuery
• Bash
• Cloud
• Composer
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• GCP
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Python
• SQL
• Security
• Serverless
• Terraform
• microservices
• NodeJS

More:

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future, creating opportunity from complexity through strategies, technologies, and innovation. Our interdisciplinary teams of strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists work globally across offices in the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and the Netherlands, with deep expertise across consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. This role sits within our Google Alliance team and is a full-time consulting position at mid-senior level in management consulting. We offer flexible hybrid working, with at least 2 days per week in the office or on client site, though this may vary by role or assignment.

Benefits:

• We also support our people with private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve and the option to buy 5 more days
• a generous company pension scheme
• community and charity initiatives
• an annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• tax-efficient benefits such as cycle to work and give as you earn

We are committed to inclusion, equality, and advancing opportunities for underrepresented groups, and we provide support for adjustments or accommodations during recruitment.

last updated 40 week of 2026