Cloud Architect

Location: UK-based strongly preferred

Start: Urgent; exact date to be confirmed

Duration & allocation: Starting 6 months + extensions, full time

Rate: £300 - £350/Day

Work: Remote - 1/2 in the office a month

Our client is looking for an experienced Google Cloud Platform Architect to support a strategic programme focused on Autonomous Networks and Digital Energy Management.

The role will be responsible for shaping the end-to-end GCP architecture, ensuring that solutions developed within the Energy domain are aligned and integrated with the broader Autonomous Networks architecture and technology landscape.

Key responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end solution architectures on GCP , covering cloud services, applications, data, APIs and integrations.
• Select appropriate GCP services and architectural patterns based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Define how solutions integrate with existing enterprise and network platforms, including interfaces, data flows and dependencies.
• Ensure alignment between the Energy domain and the wider Autonomous Networks architecture, standards and roadmap .
• Work closely with engineering teams and other architects to translate architecture into implementable solutions and resolve technical design issues.
• Address security, scalability, resilience, performance and operational requirements as part of the solution design.
• Produce clear architecture documentation and communicate design decisions to both technical and business stakeholders.

Candidate profile

• Strong experience as a GCP Cloud Architect or Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform , including cloud-native architecture, compute, networking, storage, data and integration services.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integration patterns, data flows and distributed architectures .
• Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions, ideally across hybrid or complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to operate at both high-level architecture and detailed solution design level and provide technical direction to engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work across multiple architecture and delivery teams.
• Telecommunications/mobile network experience would be advantageous but is not required.
• Energy management or energy optimisation experience would be beneficial but is not essential.
• Exposure to Autonomous Networks or network automation would be an additional advantage.