Principal Cloud Technical Architect

Title Principal Cloud Technical Architect

Location

Remote with Travel Terms Fulltime Direct Hire Client Note ONLY US Citizen and Green Card Holders We are seeking a hands-on Principal Cloud Technical Architect (GCP) to lead the design and implementation of large-scale data ecosystems.

The ideal candidate

is an architect who has led massive cloud migrations built self-serve data platforms from the ground up and maintains a rigorous focus on data governance and security. Technical

Requirements

Cloud Expertise Expert-level mastery of the GCP Data Stack Storage & Warehouse BigQuery (including BigLake and Omni) Google Cloud Storage. Processing Dataflow (Apache Beam) Dataproc (Spark/Hadoop) Cloud Composer (Airflow). Messaging Pub/Sub and Confluent/Kafka integration. Analytics & AI Looker Vertex AI and BigQuery ML. Certifications Must hold an active GCP Professional Data Engineer certification. DRP ID Performance A Data Readiness Placement (DRP) ID with a verified score of 50+ is highly preferable demonstrating a high level of technical proficiency and architectural maturity. Modern Data Stack Deep experience with dbt Airflow and containerization (GKE/Kubernetes).

Experience & Qualifications

Years of Experience 18–20 years in Data Engineering Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence with at least 6+ years focused specifically on GCP. Migration Track Record Proven experience leading at least two enterprise-scale migrations (PB-scale) to the cloud. Leadership Demonstrated experience leading large cross-functional engineering teams in an Agile/DevOps environment. Education Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related technical field.