Job Description
Lead AI GCP Data Architect - Contract
Contract: 6 months initial engagement
IR35: Outside IR35
Rate: DOE
Location: Global remit (flexible base)
The Role
We're looking for a Lead AI GCP Data Architect to design and drive a modern, cloud-native data landscape that underpins large-scale transformation. This role blends strategy with hands-on delivery, ensuring platforms, pipelines, and governance frameworks are robust enough to power AI adoption, customer innovation, and enterprise-wide decision making.
You'll shape the future state architecture, modernise the current estate, and establish best practices that enable data-driven growth at pace.
Key Focus
1. Architecture leadership - Define and evolve enterprise-wide data models, pipelines, and integration patterns; ensure scalability, security, and performance.
2. Cloud platform strategy - Lead the design and optimisation of GCP-based data platforms, driving efficiency, cost control, and future-readiness.
3. Governance & compliance - Embed frameworks for data quality, security, and ethical AI enablement.
4. Collaboration & influence - Partner with engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders, ensuring architecture aligns to strategic goals.
5. Innovation & mentoring