Data Architect, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Frankfurt am Main, Germany +2

Data Architect for Google Cloud, focusing on designing and implementing data solutions for financial services customers, including data governance, hybrid/multi-cloud strategies, and emerging agentic technologies. The role involves building relationships with stakeholders and ensuring compliance with regulations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a primary technical point of contact for a large, complex financial services customer, building deep relationships with key stakeholders (e.g., CTOs, CDOs, Data Architects).
  2. Design and implement data governance frameworks, including data lineage, metadata management, access controls, and compliance with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, BCBS 239).
  3. Develop and advocate strategies for federating data responsibility across different business units and technical teams, enabling decentralized data ownership while maintaining centralized oversight and consistency.
  4. Design and implement data capabilities that seamlessly span across on-premise environments and multiple cloud providers, ensuring data portability, interoperability, and consistent access.
  5. Identify and address data requirements for emerging agentic technologies, such as real-time data streaming, vector databases, and secure data sharing for autonomous agents.

Skills

Required

  • data architecture
  • data engineering
  • data governance
  • data lineage
  • metadata management
  • access controls
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • BCBS 239
  • federated data responsibility
  • decentralized data ownership
  • hybrid cloud
  • multi-cloud
  • data modeling
  • graph databases
  • RDF
  • property graphs

Nice to have

  • Google Cloud certifications
  • Professional Data Engineer
  • Professional Cloud Architect
  • machine learning
  • AI concepts
  • emerging agentic technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • compliance with industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, BCBS 239)
  • hybrid and multi-cloud in the financial markets industry
  • highly regulated environment