GCP Cloud Architect - Hiring ASAP
Start: ASAP
Length: 6-12 months
Location: 3 days from home & 2 days in the Essex office
Rate: £528PD
IR35: Inside IR35

My client is a highly successful and iconic creative technology and manufacturing company, that create exciting and innovative inventions and tech that no one else can match - and they're growing, fast!
They are in need of an experienced and ultra-organised GCP Front-End Cloud Architect to support a business-critical eCommerce programme across Europe with a large budget.

Responsibilities:

• Our client continues to migrate away from legacy tech stacks in favour of Cloud platforms, and need an experienced architect to support the evolving front end architecture framework to support their end customer experience
• They are looking for an enthusiastic self-starter to join their Enterprise Architecture team with a passion for solving complex technical challenges
• Deliver high level and low-level architecture designs and solutions to support the eCommerce journey within Europe, aligned with Global Enterprise Architecture guidelines
• Provide architectural guidance to support cloud migration and cloud native development within Google Cloud Platform
• Lead architecture discovery to develop and mature product technical roadmaps and strategy aligned with business vision
• Facilitate technical and process reviews with global team members, presenting recommendations and guiding teams through implementation
• Participate in functional global and local architecture guilds, cloud centre for excellence groups and peer reviews of cross domain solutions

Key Skills:

• Proven experience architecting solutions within GCP.
• Experience in designing or implementing micro-frontends, back end micro-services and/or service layers
• Design and management of APIs
• Previous work within Cloud migration and digital transformation or modernisation projects
• Ability to architect front end applications and other back-end services in Google Cloud Platform, using GCP native services (e.g., Cloud Run, GKE, Functions etc.)
• Strong technical skills with good knowledge of front-end architecture frameworks, patterns, and technologies, SPAs, REACT, Angular, Spring, jQuery etc.
• Strong understanding of micro frontend patterns and implementation including management of custom elements, web components etc.
• Strong Project Management skills including Agile delivery.
• Non-Functional Requirements analysis, testing and subsequent system fine tuning, to design architectures to meet scalability, availability, and reliability goals - Interoperability standards and methods of exchanging data effectively and securely (REST and GraphQL APIs, Web Services, Authentication and Authorisation processes)
• Robust understanding of security protocols and best practices
• Desire to learn and work with multiple teams, systems and technologies while working closely with colleagues within Enterprise Architecture globally
• Strong communicator, recognising your audience and adapting the approach used to communicate technical and non-technical information.