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

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Cloud Healthcare API, FHIR R4, HL7v2 , EMPI/MPI.

- Healthcare interoperability and healthcare data governance.

- Multi-region DR/resilience and backup architecture.

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Dynatrace, Splunk, Wiz, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow .

- Monolith-to-microservices transformation.

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Pub/Sub for event-driven ingestion.

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GKE/Kubernetes .

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Dataplex and DLP for PHI/PII classification, lineage, and masking.

Originally posted on Himalayas