Senior GCP Data Platform Architect (Lakehouse)

AgileEngine, LLC.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 578,000 - 809,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

A selection of exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the technical design of a large-scale GCP data platform for an enterprise telecommunications client. The role defines a lakehouse and medallion architecture using BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub as a technical voice alongside senior client architects.

The position starts part-time and scales to full-time, with travel to the UK office. You will present to executives and ensure security-compliant, maintainable solutions in a controlled toolchain.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture or enterprise systems architecture.
• 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.
• Strong knowledge of data ingestion and transformation tooling (Fivetran, dbt, Apache Airflow/Composer).
• Experience working with enterprise clients as a trusted advisor, able to challenge and be challenged by client architects.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the target-state lakehouse/medallion architecture for a multi-petabyte GCP data platform (BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow, Pub/Sub).
• Translate transformation goals into scalable architecture decisions and roadmaps with engineering leadership.
• Define architecture for ingestion, transformation, governance, and analytics-serving layers (BigQuery serving layer, dbt/Looker).
• Advise on migration strategy for legacy ETL pipelines into modern cloud-native patterns.
• Evaluate ingestion/transformation tooling as part of proofs of concept.
• Define data governance and cataloging aligned with GCP capabilities including metadata and access controls.
• Review architecture for security, maintainability, and long-term viability.
• Present decisions to executives and security stakeholders.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Fivetran

dbt

Apache Airflow/Composer

BigQuery/Dataflow/Pub/Sub

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Solution Architect to lead the technical design of a large-scale GCP data platform for an enterprise telecommunications client. The role defines a lakehouse and medallion architecture using BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub as a technical voice alongside senior client architects.

The position starts part-time and scales to full-time, with travel to the UK office. You will present to executives and ensure security-compliant, maintainable solutions in a controlled toolchain.