Job Description

Who We Are

Based in The Romania Excellence Centre, Bucharest - our client is seeking for experienced professionals who value teamwork, pioneering technology, and innovation. People who want to take their careers to the next level of success. You should be experienced to work in a dynamic environment, developing new applications and learning migration into Google Cloud.

The Senior GCP Data Architect owns the end‑to‑end data architecture and solution design for the Private Bank KYC / digital onboarding and regulatory reporting platform on GCP, ensuring it is scalable, secure and compliant with banking regulations.

We are looking for a Senior GCP Data Architect to help our client create the next big thing in digital banking.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define the target data architecture on GCP to support KYC, onboarding and regulatory/management reporting for Private Bank and International Private Bank
• Lead design of data pipelines and orchestration using Cloud Composer, Dataflow, Dataform and integration with on‑prem sources (e.g., core banking, KYC systems)
• Design and optimize BigQuery data models and warehouses for analytics and regulatory dashboards with clear SLAs and performance targets
• Establish and enforce data governance and security standards (classification, access control, encryption, lineage, data quality) aligned with banking and KYC regulations
• Own and maintain solution and architecture documentation (diagrams, data flows, integration patterns) in Confluence and related tooling
• Partner with security, risk and compliance to embed privacy‑by‑design and strong controls into the platform
• Identify, shape and guide AI/ML use cases (e.g., risk scoring, anomaly detection, document classification) using Vertex AI and ML tooling
  Provide technical leadership and mentoring for data engineers and developers; review designs, code and implementation for alignment with architecture
  Support SIT, UAT and production readiness for data and integration topics; act as escalation point for complex incidents

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 8 years in data engineering / architecture, with several years specifically on GCP in banking or financial services
• Strong track record of owning architecture for critical, regulatory‑sensitive platforms (KYC, AML, onboarding, risk, or regulatory reporting)
• Recognized as a go‑to expert for GCP data services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, Dataform) and data governance topics
• Able to challenge and influence senior stakeholders (Lead Architect, CIO area, Risk/Compliance) with clear, structured arguments