GCP Architect

This is a remote position.

GCP Cloud Architect

Project Description

Healthcare data platform modernization on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Cloud Healthcare API / FHIR. The platform will support clinical data ingestion from on-premises systems, healthcare data processing and analytics through BigQuery, and secure API access for EMRs, partners, government agencies, and patient-facing applications. The architect will own end-to-end cloud architecture, including networking, security, data pipelines, API integration, Infrastructure as Code, observability, resilience, and DR.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture workshops with client and partner stakeholders.
  
• Design and document end-to-end GCP architecture and target-state solutions.
  
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
  
• Architect data ingestion and processing using Dataflow, Healthcare API/FHIR, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Firestore, and Redis.
  
• Design analytics architecture using BigQuery and GCS.
  
• Design and secure FHIR Store and Consent API implementations.
  
• Define orchestration using Cloud Composer/Airflow and Artifact Registry.
  
• Establish IAM, Secret Manager, and Cloud KMS security patterns.
  
• Design hybrid connectivity using Cloud Interconnect and secure private connectivity.
  
• Architect API integrations using IBM APIC or Apigee.
  
• Define resilience, backup, multi-region, and disaster recovery strategies.
  
• Collaborate with observability and security teams.
  
• Develop current-state to target-state implementation and migration roadmaps.
  

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• Strong GCP Cloud Architecture experience.
  
• Hands-on expertise with BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Composer, GCS, Cloud SQL, Firestore, and Memorystore/Redis.
  
• Strong Terraform experience for multi-project GCP provisioning, including VPC, IAM, Interconnect, service accounts, and organization policies.
  
• Experience with Cloud Build or Jenkins/GitLab CI, container pipelines, Artifact Registry, and GitOps.
  
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Interconnect, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Private Service Connect, and perimeter security.
  
• Experience with IBM API Connect (APIC) or Apigee and partner/B2B API integrations.
  
• Experience with hybrid identity and GCP IAM integration.
  
• Experience supporting multiple external integrations and API consumers.
  
• Experience developing current-state to target-state architecture roadmaps.
  
• Strong communication and stakeholder workshop facilitation skills.
  
• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification – mandatory.
  

Preferred Skills

• Cloud Healthcare API, FHIR R4, HL7v2, EMPI/MPI.
  
• Healthcare interoperability and healthcare data governance.
  
• Multi-region DR/resilience and backup architecture.
  
• Dynatrace, Splunk, Wiz, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow.
  
• Monolith-to-microservices transformation.
  
• Pub/Sub for event-driven ingestion.
  
• GKE/Kubernetes.
  
• Dataplex and DLP for PHI/PII classification, lineage, and masking.