Senior Cloud Data Architect – Enterprise Platforms on GCP

HRC Global Services; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

HRC Global Services is seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Data Architect to lead architecture, modernization, and implementation of enterprise-scale cloud data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role requires hands-on delivery, strategic vision, and leadership across large data and analytics programs.

Responsibilities include defining data architecture strategy, migrating from AWS to GCP, building self-service data platforms, establishing governance and security, and guiding

Qualifications

• 18 20 years of overall experience in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, BI, and enterprise data architecture.
• Minimum 6+ years hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Demonstrated success leading at least two enterprise-scale, petabyte-level cloud migrations.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade, self-service data platforms.
• Strong background in AWS-to-GCP migration strategies and execution.
• Experience leading large, cross-functional engineering teams in Agile/DevOps environments.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, IS, Engineering, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute scalable, secure, future-ready cloud data architecture strategies.
• Design modern self-service data platforms supporting distributed teams.
• Establish architectural standards and long-term data modernization roadmaps.
• Lead enterprise-scale data migrations, especially AWS to GCP.
• Oversee cloud-native data integration, processing, storage, and analytics.
• Provide architectural guidance to data engineering, infra, and analytics teams.
• Promote IaC adoption and DevOps practices; communicate risks and value to leadership.

Skills

GCP

BigQuery

Data Lakehouse

Data Modeling

Data Governance

IaC

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Security

Education

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification

Tools

Dataplex

BigQuery Omni

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Job description

HRC Global Services is seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Data Architect to lead architecture, modernization, and implementation of enterprise-scale cloud data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role requires hands-on delivery, strategic vision, and leadership across large data and analytics programs.

Responsibilities include defining data architecture strategy, migrating from AWS to GCP, building self-service data platforms, establishing governance and security, and guiding