Senior Data Architect

Role Overview

Own and drive end\-to\-end enterprise data architecture on Google Cloud, covering lakehouse design, data engineering, graph\-based data modeling, enterprise knowledge governance and AI\-ready data platforms. Lead architecture decisions across data ingestion, processing, storage, analytics, knowledge management and agentic AI capabilities.

Required Technical Skills

• GCP Data Platform: BigQuery, BigLake, Cloud Storage, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery Graph.
• Data Engineering: Dataflow, Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Dataform, STS.
• Lakehouse: Apache Iceberg, Parquet, open table formats and cross\-cloud data integration.
• Governance \& Knowledge: Dataplex, Knowledge Catalog, KAG, metadata management, ontology, lineage and data quality.
• Graph \& Semantic Modeling: Cloud Spanner Graph, GQL, BigQuery Graph, graph modeling, semantic layers and reusable Measures.
• AI \& GenAI: Vertex AI, Gemini, Model Garden, Vertex AI Search, Agent Runtime, ADK, A2A, MCP, and RAG / GraphRAG architectures.
• AI Retrieval \& Embeddings: Vertex AI Embeddings, BigQuery Vector Search, Vertex AI Vector Search, hybrid search, re\-ranking, chunking strategies and Document AI. • AI Governance \& Evaluation: Responsible AI, Model Armor, Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), Gen AI Evaluation, prompt and agent testing, observability and LLMOps / AgentOps on Vertex AI Pipelines.
• Networking \& Security: VPC, Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, Private Service Connect, Cloud NAT, IAM, Cloud KMS and Secret Manager.
• DevOps \& Operations: Terraform, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.
• Architecture: Enterprise data modeling, dimensional modeling, distributed data architectures and cloud modernization.

Qualifications

• 10\+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture and solution design. • Minimum 3\+ years of hands\-on GCP architecture experience.
• Proven experience designing enterprise\-scale data platforms and cloud modernization solutions.
• Strong experience in data governance, graph/semantic modeling and enterprise knowledge architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture decisions and cross\-functional engineering teams.
• Google Professional Data Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred.

Good to Have

• Experience with enterprise knowledge graphs, ontology and semantic modeling, Neo4j. • Exposure to MCP, agentic frameworks and graph\-augmented retrieval. • Experience with enterprise governance, Legal, Risk and Compliance data platforms. • Experience designing secure, scalable and AI\-ready enterprise data ecosystems. • Experience taking GenAI and agentic solutions from PoC to production, including evaluation frameworks and cost / latency tuning.
• Familiarity with multi\-agent frameworks (ADK, LangGraph, LangChain) and agent interoperability standards such as A2A and MCP.
• Hands\-on exposure to model fine\-tuning, context caching and Responsible AI / AI risk\-management frameworks.