Tech Lead

Role: Tech Lead – Data and AnalyticsLocation: Navi Mumbai, IndiaTravel: Short term Travel Opportunities to Client Site (Majorly London)Experience: 10-12 YearsRemuneration: Commensurate with your experience NowVertical is a global, publicly listed company on the TSXV headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We are a growing team, with operations across three regions – NA & EMEA and LATAM. We help clients transform data into business value with AI, fast. NowVertical Group empowers organizations to transform their data into actionable insights, driving strategic growth and innovation. At NowVertical, we provide advanced data solutions and services designed to achieve key objectives across various business functions. Our tailored approach ensures that we address the unique challenges and opportunities within each function, driving innovation, efficiency, and growth.  Know more about NowVertical -  We are looking for a Team Lead  with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform  and strong experience with multi-cloud environments  (e.g. AWS, Azure). You will define architecture, lead design & implementation of cloud solutions for our enterprise clients, drive best practices, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, cost-efficient and aligned with business outcomes. What you’ll do… Partner closely with clients and internal teams (data engineering, devops, security, product) to understand needs, set technical direction, perform cloud architecture design & reviews Lead the design, migration, deployment, and optimization of infrastructure on GCP, and integrate / orchestrate across other cloud providers in multi-cloud setups Define and enforce best practices: security, compliance, cost management, monitoring, disaster recovery, performance Work on data platforms, AI/ML infrastructure, analytics pipelines, streaming / batch workloads, serverless & containerized services etc. Mentor more junior resources / engineers and help build cloud competency and delivery excellence within the organization Design end-to-end cloud architectures (primarily GCP, but also AWS / Azure) for large scale data, analytics, AI, and infrastructure solutions Lead cloud migrations: lift & shift, refactoring, replatforming where appropriate Ensure robust security, identity & access management, network design, encryption, data protection, compliance (e.g. GDPR, SOC2 etc.) Plan for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, cost optimization Implement monitoring, logging, observability, incident response, SLAs Define infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployment and configuration (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager, etc.) Evaluate new cloud services / technologies, integrate them to improve efficiency, performance, or cost Collaborate with business / product teams, data teams, security & operations to deliver cloud solutions that align with business goals Lead technical workshops, proof-of-concepts (POCs), provide architectural guidance to clients and internal stakeholders Requirements You’ll do it using… Strong experience (10+ years or more depending on level) with designing & implementing solutions on Google Cloud Platform , including core services (Compute, Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Kubernetes / GKE, IAM, etc.) Demonstrable experience in multi-cloud  architectures: integrating across GCP + AWS / Azure (or similar), to meet requirements for redundancy, vendor avoidance, or cloud-region / latency / compliance reasons Deep understanding of cloud-native design patterns: containers, serverless, microservices, event-driven architectures Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Google Deployment Manager, or similar) experience Strong network, security & identity knowledge for cloud environments (VPC, hybrid / multi-cloud connectivity, VPN / interconnect, IAM, KMS etc.) Experience with data engineering / analytics platforms, AI / ML infrastructure is a plus (e.g. BigQuery, Dataproc / Dataflow, AI Platform / Vertex AI) Cost management experience: monitoring & optimizing cloud spend, rightsizing, committed use, resource tagging etc. Familiarity with DevOps / CI-CD / Observability tooling: monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, incident response etc. Excellent communication skills: ability to explain complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Ability to lead architectural decisions, drive best practices, mentor others Experience in consulting, primarily with UK & US clients Nice to Have... Certifications: Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, etc. Experience with hybrid / on-prem + cloud environments Knowledge of compliance frameworks relevant to your market (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) Prior experience in enterprise consulting or professional services Experience in scaling global cloud teams or working with globally distributed system You’ll fit in by… Embodying the values of NowVertical  Thinking like an owner (Founder’s Mindset)  Communicating with honesty, candour, and respect  Being resourceful and creative  Acting with empathy  Benefits You’ll love it because… You will have the opportunity to work in a fast-moving, mission-driven company.  You will gain exposure to global clients in the US and UK.  You will have autonomy and career growth opportunities.  You will engage and collaborate with senior leaders and experts across geographies.  You will contribute to the company’s growth with stock options.  You will always be challenged with exciting, cutting-edge Data & AI projects.