Senior GCP BigQuery Architect | Data Platform Lead

iBSC; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 71,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

iBSC is seeking an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud from Manchester. This 6–12 month rolling contract offers £450 per day and requires ~2 days onsite weekly with an Inside IR35 designation.

You will lead the migration of legacy data warehouses, define end-to-end architectures, and optimize BigQuery schemas while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure data solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' IT experience, including 5+ years in GCP data engineering/architecture.
• Strong BigQuery architecture, optimisation and administration.
• Hands-on experience with Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run.
• Strong SQL, data modelling and data warehousing.
• Proven experience migrating Legacy/on-premise platforms to GCP.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git and DevOps.
• Good understanding of IAM, security, networking and cloud governance.
• Experience integrating Looker, Tableau or Power BI with BigQuery.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure and high-performance GCP/BigQuery data architectures.
• Lead migration of Legacy data warehouses and ETL workloads to GCP.
• Define end-to-end architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage, governance and reporting.
• Design and optimise BigQuery schemas, partitioning, clustering, performance and cost.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews and stakeholder guidance.
• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and cloud governance best practices.

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Job description

iBSC is seeking an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud from Manchester. This 6–12 month rolling contract offers £450 per day and requires ~2 days onsite weekly with an Inside IR35 designation.

You will lead the migration of legacy data warehouses, define end-to-end architectures, and optimize BigQuery schemas while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure data solutions.