Job Description

AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards. WHY JOIN US If you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you! ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a Solution Architect to lead the technical design of a large-scale GCP data platform for an enterprise telecommunications client. You will define a lakehouse and medallion architecture using BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, working as an independent technical voice alongside senior client architects. The role starts part-time and scales to full-time. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Design and own the target-state lakehouse/medallion architecture for a multi-petabyte GCP data platform (BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow, Pub/Sub) supporting thousands of pipelines and hundreds of thousands of tables. - Translate transformation goals into scalable, secure architecture decisions and delivery roadmaps, working directly with architects and engineering leadership. - Define architecture for ingestion, transformation, curation, dataset registration/cataloging, governance, and analytics-serving layers (BigQuery as serving layer, dbt/Looker for transformation and reporting). - Advise on migration strategy for legacy ETL pipelines — including undocumented, proprietary legacy tooling — into modern GCP-native or open lakehouse patterns. - Evaluate and help select ingestion/transformation tooling (e.g. Fivetran, dbt, Airflow/Composer, NiFi) as part of ongoing technology proofs of concept. - Define data governance and cataloging strategy aligned with GCP's native catalog capabilities (e.g. Dataplex, BigQuery universal catalog), including metadata, lineage, and access-control design. - Act as senior technical reviewer for the squad's engineers, ensuring architectural consistency, security compliance, and long-term maintainability. - Present and validate architecture decisions to executives, enterprise architecture teams, and security stakeholders. - Operate within a controlled toolchain and security constraints, including approved AI-assisted development environments. MUST HAVES - 10+ years of experience in data architecture, solution architecture, or enterprise systems architecture . - Strong, hands-on experience architecting data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS) at enterprise / multi-petabyte scale. - Proven experience designing lakehouse or medallion architectures (bronze/silver/gold layering or equivalent). - Experience defining enterprise data governance frameworks — data quality, lineage, metadata management, access controls, cataloging. - Experience advising on or leading migration of legacy ETL/data platforms to modern cloud-native architectures. - Strong understanding of data ingestion and transformation tooling such as Fivetran, dbt, Apache Airflow/Composer . - Experience working directly with enterprise clients as a trusted technical advisor, able to challenge and be challenged by client architects rather than simply execute a defined scope. - Comfortable operating inside a large, security-conscious enterprise with a controlled toolchain, including adapting to approved rather than personally preferred AI-assisted development tools. - Excellent communication and presentation skills — able to explain complex architecture to technical, business, and executive audiences. - Fluent English, comfortable in a client-facing role daily. - Willingness to travel occasionally (a few days at a time) to the UK office. NICE TO HAVES - Experience with BigLake / Iceberg-based lakehouse patterns. - Experience with Google Dataplex or BigQuery's universal data catalog. - Familiarity with legacy ETL platforms such as Ab Initio, Informatica, or similar proprietary tools, particularly reverse-engineering pipelines built on them. - Experience with AI-assisted, spec-driven development tools such as Amazon Kiro or comparable environments. - Telecommunications sector experience (not required, but relevant given the scale). - Google Cloud certification (Professional Data Engineer / Professional Cloud Architect). - Experience working within Scrum/SAFe delivery frameworks. PERKS AND BENEFITS - Professional growth : Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps. - Competitive compensation : We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities. - A selection of exciting projects : Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands. - Flextime : Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive. Meet Our Recruitment Process Application → Coding Challenge → Video Interview → Technical Interview or Hiring Manager Interview Each step helps us understand your skills and overall fit. If it’s a match, you’ll receive an offer.