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

Job Description

GCP BigQuery Architect

Title: GCP BigQuery Architect

Location: Manchester - 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