About the job
Are you ready to make a significant impact in the cloud technology landscape?
West Monroe is on the lookout for a talented GCP Solutions Architect with a strong track record in designing and deploying cloud-based data and analytics solutions. This exciting opportunity is focused on assisting our Energy and Utilities clients as they assess, utilize, migrate to, and enhance their operations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). At West Monroe, from your first day, you will have the chance to make a substantial, hands-on impact on our clients while advancing your career through targeted professional development and continuous learning.
This role requires presence in New York City or the tri-state area.
What You'll Do:
Client Delivery
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) and solutions architect for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies, guiding clients through design choices, trade-offs, and migration strategies.
- Evaluate and differentiate between Azure, AWS, and GCP capabilities (cost, performance, compliance, analytics/AI) to facilitate informed decision-making.
- Lead the architecture, design, and migration strategy for client workloads into GCP, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Oversee the greenfield construction of modern data platforms that enable analytics, AI, and intelligent solutions on GCP by creating architectures that meet specific use case requirements.
- Recognize the key differences and synergies in modern data platform capabilities when considering Databricks as a complementary solution to Google Cloud.
- Manage platform cost modeling to provide insights on operational budgeting and lead initiatives to identify and capture cost efficiencies in existing capabilities.
- Collaborate with data engineers, developers, and business SMEs to ensure that architecture aligns with business objectives and regulatory standards.
- Offer hands-on technical leadership on cloud-native services (including BigQuery, BigTable, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Looker, Vertex AI, etc.) as well as security, networking, and governance aspects.
- Comprehend the interconnections between data governance, data engineering, analytics/AI, and intelligent solutions from a comprehensive delivery perspective.
- Serve as a trusted consultant to client leadership, fostering alignment between business and IT stakeholders.
Practice Development
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