Location: Bristol - Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite Contract: 8 monthsRate: £500 per day We are looking for an experienced GCP Data Architect/Solution Architect to support a major finance transformation programme. You will be responsible for designing and governing enterprise-scale cloud and data solutions on Google Cloud Platform, combining strategic solution architecture with hands-on data architecture expertise. The role will focus on building scalable, resilient and cost-effective data platforms while providing architectural direction to engineering teams and senior stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end architecture design for cloud-native data solutions on GCP. Define architectural direction aligned with security, data governance and compliance standards. Design conceptual, logical and physical data models for financial, regulatory and operational datasets. Define data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption patterns. Establish standards for metadata, lineage, reference data and data stewardship. Architect solutions using GCP services including BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and IAM. Design scalable, high-performing and cost-optimised cloud workloads. Develop reusable architecture patterns and blueprints for engineering teams. Work closely with CTO architects, data platform teams, SMEs and transformation leads. Present architectural decisions clearly to technical and senior non-technical stakeholders. ..... full job details .....