Lead Google Cloud Architect — Enterprise Solutions

Ultipro; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

NTT DATA in South Africa is seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Technical Architect (Google) to lead enterprise‑scale Google Cloud engagements across SA and MEA. You will architect, govern, and drive transformations with sales, consulting, and delivery teams, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost‑optimized cloud platforms.

You will guide migration strategies, modernization initiatives, and cloud transformation programs, mentor engineers, and stay ahead of cloud innovations while communicating

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or related field.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred or required.
• Deep expertise across Google Cloud services including VPC, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, IAM, Monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and governance of enterprise‑scale Google Cloud solutions.
• Partner with sales to develop cloud strategies and transformation roadmaps.
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable cloud platforms.
• Define target architectures for networking, identity, security, and observability.
• Promote IaC using Terraform and Deployment Manager.
• Provide architectural leadership for migration, modernization, containerization, and serverless initiatives.
• Drive DevOps, CI/CD, and platform automation strategies.
• Lead security, compliance, and FinOps best practices.
• Mentor architects and engineers; stay current with cloud trends.

Skills

Google Cloud

Terraform

CI/CD

DevOps

Security

FinOps

GKE

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Splunk

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

NTT DATA in South Africa is seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Technical Architect (Google) to lead enterprise‑scale Google Cloud engagements across SA and MEA. You will architect, govern, and drive transformations with sales, consulting, and delivery teams, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost‑optimized cloud platforms.

You will guide migration strategies, modernization initiatives, and cloud transformation programs, mentor engineers, and stay ahead of cloud innovations while communicating