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# Google Cloud Platform Architect

- **Company:** WEST Inc
- **Location:** Oakland, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** BigQuery, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Data Streaming, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Apigee, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Complex Event Processing, Terraform, Looker Analytics
- **Published:** June 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/83efead6-5ade-4909-be20-a26a128f77b8

## About the Role

Minimum of eight (8) years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes.

a. At least five (5) years of that experience must have been in a lead capacity.

Possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. (Provide copy of bachelor's degree).

Minimum of Three (3) years of experience in virtualization or cloud native architectures with Google Cloud Platform.

Two (2) projects total - Experience on full cycle project implementations of:

a. Analytic Warehousing technologies including BigQuery and Looker.

b. Data processing technologies.

Minimum of three (3) years of experience as an architect, configurator, or similar role with hands-on implementation experience on Google cloud computing and Terraform configuration.

Minimum of three (3) years of experience with architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design, and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems and Apigee Management.

Minimum of three (3) years of experience on Google Cloud native architectures developing two or more of the following:

data warehousing,

data lakes,

batch/real-time event processing,

streaming,

data processing (ETL/ELT),

data migrations,

data visualization tools (i.e. Looker),

. data governance.



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