Senior GCP Architect Data & AI/GenAI Platform Engineering

Job Title : Senior GCP Architect – Data & AI/GenAI Platform Engineering
Location: Irving, TX – Onsite
Duration: 6 Months

Salary Range: $55.00 - $57.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).
Applicants must be willing to work on W2.
 
Role Description:

• At least 15 years of total IT experience with over 5 years as Architect.
• Must have 7+ years of experience in Google Cloud (GCP).
• Must have 7+ years of experience in Python.
• Must have 7+ years of experience in Terraform.
• Must have 7+ years of experience in GCP Program Leadership.
• Ability to lead the design, delivery, and governance of new enterprise data and analytics platforms, leveraging services including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Dataform, and Looker.
• Strong experience and understanding of building using serverless, microservices, and containerization on GCP/AWS/Azure.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, Gemini Enterprise, and designing workflows for Vertex AI and RAG, tool calling, vector databases, and multi-step agentic systems.
• Experience with CI/CD for models and prompts, model registries, drift detection, and production monitoring.
• Development expertise in Python, Java, Node.js, Git, Linux/CLI utilities, and standard AI frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Should have knowledge and experience in token management and AI guardrails.
• Translate executive goals into technical roadmaps.
• Lead engineering teams, manage stakeholder expectations, and outline non-functional requirements.