Principal Architect - Platform Engineering - GCP

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Job Description

About Fractal

What makes Fractal a GREAT fit for you? When you join Fractal, you’ll be part of a fast-growing team that helps our clients leverage AI together with the power of behavioural sciences to make better decisions. We’re a strategic analytics partner to most admired fortune 500 companies globally, we help them power every human decision in the enterprise by bringing analytics, AI and behavioural science to the decision.

Our people enjoy a collaborative work environment, exceptional training and career development — as well as unlimited growth opportunities. We have a Glassdoor rating of 4 / 5 and achieve customer NPS of 9/ 10. If you like working with a curious, supportive, high-performing team, Fractal is the place for you. Fractal ANZ needs a Business Development Manager to focus on growing our Clients, rather than developing business within well-established accounts. If you have a sharply honed consulting style, this is your chance to be an integral part of our own growth and revenue achievements. You will also target top executives of previously untapped potential Must Win Clients (MWC) companies, drive the pivotal moment where leads become sales, and reap the rewards of negotiating contracts through to a successful close.

How You Will Make an Impact/ Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and reliable infrastructure
• Working closely with client and delivering outcomes per the SoW and SLA
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and document new systems or maintain existing systems on Cloud Platforms based on specifications.
• Collaborate with, provide continuous guidance to, and influence design decisions of various Agile development teams for various existing and new products and solutions w.r.t. Cloud enablement, migration and infrastructure needs, to adopt and promote Cloud best practices, and economies of scale.
• Engage customers understand their use cases and operational needs, as well as engage with Cloud Platform vendors to understand their technology roadmaps and evolution and translate to comprehensive technology guidance for various product teams.
• Design for Cloud security and compliance ensure solutions and operations reliability.
• Drive and conduct audits on current cloud utilization and recommend cloud optimization and security changes.
• Act as a mentor and technical consultant for the various teams.

Desired/Preferred Skills:

Responsibilities:

• Platform Management: Oversee the architecture and management of GCP resources, particularly BigQuery, Databricks, and Kubernetes.
• Architecting Solutions: Design scalable and efficient data architectures tailored to specific business needs.
• Optimization of Workloads: Analyze and optimize data processing workloads to improve performance and reduce costs.
• Performance Measurement: Implement monitoring and performance metrics for data pipelines and applications.
• Cost Monitoring: Develop strategies for cost-effective resource usage, including budget tracking and optimization techniques.
• Collaboration: Work closely with data engineers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and functionality.

Required Skills:

• GCP Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services, particularly BigQuery, Databricks, and Kubernetes.
• Data Engineering: Experience with data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
• Performance Tuning: Proven track record in optimizing data processing and query performance in BigQuery.
• Kubernetes Management: Proficient in deploying and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Cost Management: Familiarity with GCP billing and cost management tools to monitor and optimize cloud expenditure.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with GCP monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Stackdriver, Cloud Monitoring).

Years of Experience:

• 16 to 20 years experience
• 10+ years of experience in GCP Solution Architect.

Education Qualification:

• B.E / B.Tech, BCA, MCA equivalent
• GCP - Professional Cloud Architect

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!