Lead Architect for Google Cloud (GCP) (m/f/d)

Operations and reliability

• Ensure platform stability, availability, and performance
• Architect monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
• Identify and resolve complex platform and infrastructure issues
• Prevent availability risks and operational bottlenecks

Leadership and collaboration

• Lead international and cross-functional teams of architects, engineers, and data experts
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear architectural designs and specifications
• Support presales, solution design, and strategic decision-making
• Mentor junior architects and engineers and establish architecture best practices and standards
• Document architecture decisions, patterns, and technical solutions thoroughly

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise IT and cloud architecture experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud solutions at enterprise scale
• Deep expertise in core cloud services, infrastructure as code, cloud networking, identity and access management, and security architecture
• Proven experience architecting cloud platforms, data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics solutions
• Strong container orchestration experience
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
• Proficiency in Python and/or shell scripting
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Fluent English
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Preferred qualifications

• Professional cloud certifications in architecture, security, or networking
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures
• Experience with AI/ML platforms and generative AI integrations
• Knowledge of Model Context Protocol server implementations
• Experience in regulated industries such as Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, or Telecommunications
• Proven experience leading and mentoring architecture teams

You will succeed if you

• Hold a Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
• Have extensive experience in ICT analysis, architecture, and solution design
• Bring a strong background as a senior data professional or data architect in enterprise environments
• Possess deep knowledge of data architecture, data modeling, including conceptual, logical, and physical models, and ETL/ELT patterns
• Have strong hands-on or design-level experience with SQL, Python, UNIX, Git, and UML
• Are skilled in analyzing existing enterprise data landscapes and identifying architectural gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities
• Design scalable, stable, and maintainable data architectures aligned with business strategy and enterprise standards
• Define and maintain target data architectures, reference architectures, and architectural principles
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear architectural designs, standards, and technical specifications
• Establish and enforce data architecture guidelines, best practices, and design patterns
• Drive alignment with data governance frameworks, including data quality, metadata, and ownership models
• Lead and plan data migration strategies, especially from on-premise or legacy systems to the cloud
• Design cloud-native data platforms using data warehouse, data catalog, and cloud storage services
• Ensure architectural consistency across hybrid and cloud environments
• Define and oversee testing strategies for data pipelines, integrations, and platforms
• Ensure non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Guide teams in resolving complex data issues through structured root-cause analysis
• Collaborate closely with international and cross-functional teams, including data engineers, cloud architects, analytics teams, and business stakeholders
• Act as a technical lead and trusted advisor, supporting presales activities and architectural decision-making
• Mentor data engineers and junior architects, strengthening architectural maturity across teams
• Work effectively in agile environments, managing architectural requirements across the full project lifecycle
• Contribute to structured and transparent decision-making processes
• Prepare and maintain high-quality architecture documentation, including diagrams, standards, and architecture decision records
• Communicate clearly and confidently in German and English
• Apply data protection and privacy principles, including attribute classification, pseudonymization, and anonymization
• Ensure alignment with regulatory and enterprise compliance requirements, including GDPR

Optional / nice-to-have

• Experience with enterprise-wide cloud data migrations
• Expertise in end-to-end data platform and pipeline architecture
• Strong background in enterprise data modeling frameworks, such as dimensional modeling, Data Vault, and domain-oriented models
• Experience working closely with cloud platform, security, and infrastructure architects
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid data architectures
• Experience in regulated industries such as Finance, Telecommunications, Healthcare, or Manufacturing
• Previous responsibility for architecture governance boards or design authorities

Benefits

An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio supports lasting motivation, quality of life, physical and mental well-being, and a positive work environment. It provides more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life, and individual lifestyle.

More than 25 benefits are offered in the following areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits focused on learning and development
• Benefits focused on health and sport
• Benefits focused on family and work-life balance
• Other benefits

Benefits marked as applicable to part-time positions are also available for such positions. This information may be subject to changes and other internal rules.

Odmeňovanie

From 2 500 EUR/month

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits.