Lead Data Platform Architect - GCP Lakehouse

AgileEngine, LLC.; Wrocław; Hybrid; PLN 462,000 - 693,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime / work from home

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the technical design of a large-scale GCP data platform for an enterprise telecom client. You will define a lakehouse and medallion architecture using BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, acting as an independent technical voice alongside senior client architects.

The role starts part-time and scales to full-time, with flextime and options to work from home or in the office.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, solution architecture, or enterprise systems architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience architecting data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS) at enterprise scale.
• Proven experience designing lakehouse or medallion architectures (bronze/silver/gold).
• Experience migrating legacy ETL/data platforms to modern cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of data ingestion/transformation tooling such as Fivetran, dbt, Apache Airflow/Composer.
• Experience with enterprise clients as a trusted technical advisor.
• Ability to operate in a security-conscious environment with a controlled toolchain.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to the UK office.

Responsibilities

• Design and own target-state lakehouse/medallion architecture for a multi-petabyte GCP data platform.
• Translate transformation goals into scalable, secure architecture decisions and roadmaps.
• Define ingestion, transformation, curation, cataloging, governance, and analytics layers.
• Advise on migration of legacy ETL pipelines to modern cloud-native patterns.
• Evaluate ingestion/transformation tooling as part of PoCs.
• Define data governance and cataloging strategy aligned with GCP capabilities.
• Act as senior reviewer ensuring architectural consistency and security.
• Present and validate decisions to executives and security stakeholders.
• Operate within a controlled toolchain and security constraints.

Skills

Data architecture

Solution architecture

GCP BigQuery

Data lakehouse

Migration strategy

ETL tooling

dbt

Airflow

Fivetran

Client advisory

Security compliance

Communication

Travel willingness

Tools

BigQuery

GCS

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Dataplex

dbt

Apache Airflow/Composer

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the technical design of a large-scale GCP data platform for an enterprise telecom client. You will define a lakehouse and medallion architecture using BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, acting as an independent technical voice alongside senior client architects.

The role starts part-time and scales to full-time, with flextime and options to work from home or in the office.