Gcp Architect

Our mission is to break down the barriers of today to release the potential of tomorrow. Join us today and release yours.

There are two things that we want to share with anyone considering joining us.

Firstly, we’ve got big ambitions for our colleagues and the future of the organisation. These include our vision that inclusion and accessibility drive every conversation we have and every decision we make. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business. We value every colleague, their diversity and the contribution that they make. When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

**About this role**

Our Data Engineering teams are building our next generation Data platforms and are our main contributors to materialise BT Digital strategy.

This role ensures that our BT data flows into our Analytics platforms and they are available for exploitation of our Global Division.

You will be working in a very creative environment where you will contribute to the design and building of our new GCP Data platform infrastructure.

**You'll have the following responsibilities**
- Work closely with our internal teams of Solutions Architects, Data Designers, Source System Experts and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into a technical implementation and design documentation to build our Data platform.
- Recommending the correct technologies to be used and in the most cost effective manner.
- Develop solution architecture, implementation plans and estimates.
- Create business cases for technology to implement new platform capabilities.
- Coaching and mentoring Platform Engineers.
- Assisting Platform Engineering manager by being DOA, suggesting proactively improvements, contributing to unblock possible issues.

**You'll have the following skills & experience**

5 Key skills identified as:

- Experience with analytic warehouse solutions, data movement from data stores into analytic warehouses, and with performance/scalability improvements.
- Hands on and deep experience working with Google Data Products (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, AI Building Blocks, Looker, Cloud Data Fusion, Dataprep, etc.) and Terraform.
- Be able to provide solutions for resiliency, fail over, monitoring, sizing, etc
- Solid Python programming skills. Java / other languages beneficial.
- Streaming experience ( e.g. Kafka)

Other skills beneficial for the role are:

- Proactively helping others and bringing people with you towards supporting our strategy.
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with Big Data, PaaS, and IaaS technologies.
- Experience with streaming data (e.g. Kafka).
- HashiCorp Terraform associate.
- Experience using version control and CD/CI tools (e.g GITLAB, Jenkins, et al.)
- Official Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification
- Experience writing and deploying Terraform scripts
- Communicate complex ideas effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
- Knowledge and experience of using Agile.

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 10% on target bonus
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan
- Pension scheme
- Shares Plan
- Flexible benefits: cycle to work, childcare vouchers, healthcare, etc.

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**About BT**

BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do - and in the people who work here.

We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.

So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT

**How to Apply**

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