Lead AI & Data Architect - GCP Lakehouse

GFT TECHNOLOGIES SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 282,000 - 379,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Poland is seeking a Lead AI & Data Architect to shape our target data architecture for a large-scale cloud transformation in finance. You will design enterprise data platforms on GCP, set governance and quality standards, and enable analytics and surveillance capabilities through modern data architecture principles.

Key responsibilities include defining Bronze-Silver-Gold patterns, creating data models, ensuring security/IAM compliance, and guiding BigQuery-driven cloud-native data

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Enterprise Data Architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Data Lakehouse architecture with Bronze, Silver, Gold patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing GCP architectures.
• Strong expertise in BigQuery.
• Experience in conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and data quality management.
• Experience with integration architecture and data lineage practices.
• Understanding of GCP security and IAM concepts.
• Experience in Financial Markets or Surveillance domains.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

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 domains.
• Establish data governance frameworks, data quality controls and metadata standards.
• Define data integration architecture, data lineage and end-to-end data flows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify data elements and enrichments.
• Support 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 options.
• Ensure alignment with security, IAM and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and best practices.
• Extensive experience in Enterprise Data Architecture (repeated emphasis).
• Hands-on data lakehouse pattern design in GCP environments.
• Knowledge of data governance and data quality management.

Skills

Enterprise Data Architecture

BigQuery

GCP

Data Lakehouse

Data Modelling

Data Governance

Stakeholder Management

GKE

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Dataflow

Apache Beam

Java

Tools

Vertex AI

Dataflow

Apache Beam

GKE

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Java

Job description

GFT Poland is seeking a Lead AI & Data Architect to shape our target data architecture for a large-scale cloud transformation in finance. You will design enterprise data platforms on GCP, set governance and quality standards, and enable analytics and surveillance capabilities through modern data architecture principles.

Key responsibilities include defining Bronze-Silver-Gold patterns, creating data models, ensuring security/IAM compliance, and guiding BigQuery-driven cloud-native data