Lead/ Principal Architect GCP

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Job Description:  Evaluate the current technology landscape and recommend a forward-looking, short- and long-term technology strategic vision.  Engage with senior technical leaders at the client site, becoming a trusted thought partner by understanding their challenges and providing strategic guidance.  Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.  Proactively understand client needs and align them with Fractal’s value propositions, proposing innovative and comprehensive solutions.  Collaborate with offshore delivery teams and other multidisciplinary teams within Fractal to ensure seamless integration and delivery of solutions.  Delivery Leadership (Added Focus):  Act as a Delivery Lead when required, ensuring end-to-end ownership of solution execution, quality, timelines, and client satisfaction.  Drive program-level governance, including planning, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication across workstreams.  Step in to resolve complex technical and delivery challenges, guiding teams through ambiguity and ensuring timely resolution.  Provide hands-on leadership during critical delivery phases, including architecture validation, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.  Ensure alignment between solution architecture and delivery execution, balancing immediate delivery goals with long-term scalability and maintainability.  Mentor and guide delivery teams, fostering strong engineering practices, accountability, and continuous improvement.  Be willing to take a hands-on approach to understand complex contexts and underlying client requirements.  Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures.  Provide technical architecture leadership and direction on projects, ensuring secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable platforms.  Work with data engineers and data scientists to develop architectures and solutions.  Assist in ensuring the smooth delivery of services, products, and solutions, while balancing immediate client needs with long-term technical strategy.  Skills & Requirements:  In-depth experience as an Architect with expertise in Google Cloud Platform and a passion for applying the latest technologies to solve complex business problems. An ideal candidate would have:  12+ years of experience in Data Engineering and Cloud Native technologies (including Google Cloud Platforms), covering big data, analytics, and AI/ML domains.  Extensive experience with GCP tools and technologies, including BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Data Flow, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, and Dataproc.  Expertise in creating, deploying, configuring, and scaling applications on GCP serverless infrastructure.