Senior Data Cloud Architect & BigQuery Delivery

HCLTech; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking a hands-on Senior Consultant to operate across architecture, delivery, and stakeholder change management conversations. You will be embedded in the delivery team as a senior individual contributor with architectural authority.

Responsibilities include leading architecture design, migration design, and governance; delivering data pipelines, validating parallel runs, and guiding change management with customer teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering / data architecture with client-facing consulting or delivery experience.
• Deep hands-on Google Cloud data stack: BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow or equivalent streaming/CDC, dbt, orchestration (Composer/Airflow), CI/CD for data.
• Experience delivering at least one large-scale platform migration (Snowflake/Databricks) with parallel-run validation and production cutover.
• Knowledge of lakehouse patterns, open table formats (Iceberg), data governance: catalogs, lineage, data quality, access controls, and federated models.
• Strong English communication; experience presenting to director/VP-level audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve components of the governed lakehouse foundation: BigQuery compute, Iceberg storage, batch/streaming/CDC ingestion, dbt-based transformation with CI/CD, catalog, lineage, data quality, and semantic layer.
• Produce Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and defend designs at the Design Authority / ARB, including security, cost, and data-risk controls.
• Assess Snowflake and Databricks workloads; define migration path (rehost/re-platform/re-architect) with migration patterns.
• Contribute to AI/agentic control-plane architecture touching the data platform.
• Ensure zero downtime, trustworthy data, no partial cutover, and cost as a first-class deliverable.

Skills

Data architecture

Client-facing

Communication

English proficiency

Google Cloud

BigQuery

Data governance

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

BigQuery

Dataproc

Dataflow

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Job description

HCLTech is seeking a hands-on Senior Consultant to operate across architecture, delivery, and stakeholder change management conversations. You will be embedded in the delivery team as a senior individual contributor with architectural authority.

Responsibilities include leading architecture design, migration design, and governance; delivering data pipelines, validating parallel runs, and guiding change management with customer teams.