Cloud Data Architect - Enterprise Lakehouse on GCP

GFT TECHNOLOGIES SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 273,000 - 419,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Unlimited PTO

Medical package

Training & certifications

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Job summary

GFT Poland is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape a cloud-based data strategy for a major financial services transformation. You will design enterprise data platforms on Google Cloud, establish governance and quality standards, and guide modelling, integration and analytics across business domains.

The role requires hands-on GCP, BigQuery and data lakehouse expertise, with a strong emphasis on data governance, security and regulatory compliance in a financial market context.

Qualifications

• Define target data architecture for large-scale cloud transformation in financial services.
• Design enterprise data platforms on GCP with governance and quality standards.
• Create scalable data models and integration patterns for analytics and surveillance.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-scale data architecture and target-state data platform solutions on GCP.
• Define Bronze, Silver and Gold data lakehouse patterns and standards.
• Create conceptual, logical and physical data models for complex business domains.
• Establish data governance frameworks, data quality controls and metadata standards.
• Define integration architecture, data lineage and end-to-end data flows.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to identify common data elements and enrichments.
• Support the creation of analysis-ready datasets and reusable data products.
• Provide architectural guidance for BigQuery-based solutions and cloud-native data platforms.
• Assess cloud migration approaches and target-state architecture options.
• Ensure alignment with security, IAM and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, technical decision-making and best practices.

Skills

Enterprise Data Architecture

Data Lakehouse

GCP Architecture

BigQuery

Data Modelling

Data Governance

Data Integration

GCP IAM

Financial Markets

Stakeholder Mgmt

Tools

GCP (Google Cloud)

Dataflow

Apache Beam

Kubernetes (GKE)

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Vertex AI

Job description

GFT Poland is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape a cloud-based data strategy for a major financial services transformation. You will design enterprise data platforms on Google Cloud, establish governance and quality standards, and guide modelling, integration and analytics across business domains.

The role requires hands-on GCP, BigQuery and data lakehouse expertise, with a strong emphasis on data governance, security and regulatory compliance in a financial market context.