GCP BigQuery Architect - Bristol (Hybrid) - Inside IR35 - £450 PD

GCP BigQuery Architect Title: GCP BigQuery Architect Location: Bristol - 2 days onsite per week Duration: 6 - 12 Months Rolling Contract Budget : £450 per day, all inclusive Inside IR35 We are looking for an experienced GCP BigQuery Architect to design and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms on Google Cloud. The role will focus on BigQuery, cloud migration, data warehousing and modern data engineering , working closely with business and technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities Design scalable, secure and high-performance GCP/BigQuery data architectures Lead migration of Legacy data warehouses and ETL workloads to GCP Define end-to-end architecture across ingestion, transformation, storage, governance and reporting Design and optimise BigQuery schemas, partitioning, clustering, performance and cost Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews and stakeholder guidance Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and cloud governance best practices Mandatory 10+ years' IT experience , including 5+ years in GCP data engineering/architecture Strong BigQuery architecture, optimisation and administration Hands-on experience with Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run Strong SQL, data modelling and data warehousing Proven experience migrating Legacy/on-premise platforms to GCP Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git and DevOps Good understanding of IAM, security, networking and cloud governance Experience integrating Looker, Tableau or Power BI with BigQuery Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills Bonus Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Cloud Architect certification Experience with Dataplex, Data Catalog or Vertex AI Experience within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes