GCP Solution Architect -UK Wide - Flexible working - England

GCP Solution Architect -UK Wide - Flexible working

£90-100,000 + benefits

THIS POSITION WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO UNDERGO SC CLEARANCE (BRITISH OR ILR VISA)

A leading IT consultancy is looking to recruit a GCP Solution Architect to support a key end client, to drive users digital and data transformation, focusing on data solutions and Google technologies.

• Partners with other solution architects to assess solution alignment to the overall architectural blueprint - and drive proposal writing, solution direction, pricing, and costing
• Help define the performance goals and metrics for the proposed solution and understands the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the solution
• Owns Solution Development as liaison between Sales and Delivery teams. Serve as technical liaison between Sales team, Clients, Delivery & support teams up to and including Contract negotiations
• Cooperate with sales team to formulate / execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives
• Have experience of designing architecture for data focused GCP projects

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
• Deep understanding of architecture processes including Reviews and Design Authority.
• Strong expertise in AI/ML technologies, preferably including Generative AI, and experience with automated decisioning via AI, ML, or declarative rulesets.
• Knowledge of automation tooling such as DevOps to facilitate CI/CD approaches to IaC
• Knowledge of other Cloud Platforms such Hybrid Cloud
• GCP Certification or equivalent cloud technology expertise.
• Knowledge of IaaS implementation, Availability sets, GCP Networking concepts, DNS, Load Balancing, HA, DR
• Experience with API architectures, UI frameworks (e.g., React, Angular), databases (e.g., Postgres, BigQuery), and data processing technologies (e.g., Spark, BQ SQL).
• Strong skills in areas such as Docker, Kubernetes, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS to name a few