Senior GCP Architect: Cloud Native & Platform Leadership

Diana Duggan UK Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Four bank client seeks an experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect to join a cloud programme in London. The role is on-site, 5 days a week, with a 6-month initial duration and immediate start. Day rate is £400–£450 inside IR35, paid via Umbrella Company.

The candidate will design cloud-native systems, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to platform standards and CI/CD maturity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software development experience.
• Experience delivering system design, development, testing and reliability at scale.
• Proficiency in Go or Python with performance and concurrency focus.
• Hands-on Kubernetes with Operators and CRDs using Kubebuilder/Operator SDK.
• GCP experience architecting, building and operating production workloads.
• CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation expertise.
• Strong SDLC and Agile knowledge; effective communicator.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead cloud-native software solutions across teams.
• Set coding standards and support teammates with code reviews.
• Lead architecture for cloud-native systems with RFCs/ADRs and diagrams.
• Drive reliability, performance, and observability improvements.
• Evaluate vendors and drive architectural decisions across the firm.
• Mentor engineers and grow communities of practice.
• Promote cloud-native best practices and adoption across teams.
• Contribute to platform standards and security/compliance.
• Build and operate scalable services deployed on cloud platforms.

Skills

Production software development

Go / Python

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Security best practices

GCP experience

Agile practices

Tools

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

Job description

Big Four bank client seeks an experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect to join a cloud programme in London. The role is on-site, 5 days a week, with a 6-month initial duration and immediate start. Day rate is £400–£450 inside IR35, paid via Umbrella Company.

The candidate will design cloud-native systems, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to platform standards and CI/CD maturity.