Architect, Data

Zencore is a leading Google Cloud consultancy focused on helping enterprise organizations reduce risk, accelerate cloud transformation, and unlock the value of Google Cloud. Founded by former Google Cloud leaders and engineers, Zencore brings deep technical expertise, senior-level talent, and a highly consultative approach to complex cloud engagements.

We are looking for a Principal Architect, Data to provide senior technical leadership across our Data practice and client engagements.

This is a highly technical, client-facing role for someone who can move comfortably between enterprise data architecture, hands-on technical execution, and strategic conversations with customers.

At Zencore, Principal Architects are senior technical leaders and the external face of our engineering expertise. They own the end-to-end technical direction and successful technical delivery of complex engagements, while helping define the standards, patterns, and capabilities that allow our engineering organization to scale.

Location: We are looking for candidates in the UK (London Preferred)

• Act as the senior technical referent for complex Data engagements, owning key architecture decisions and ensuring successful technical delivery.
• Work directly with clients to understand their business requirements, data landscape, and technical challenges, translating them into scalable solutions on Google Cloud.
• Define architectures across data platforms, pipelines, modeling, integration, governance, security, and scalability.
• Remain a hands-on technical practitioner, supporting engineering teams with complex implementation challenges and unblocking delivery when needed.
• Develop estimates around the skills, resources, and timelines required to deliver Zencore engagements and translate these into clear technical proposals.
• Partner closely with Data Engineers, Cloud Architects, and AI/ML teams to design solutions that connect Zencore’s Cloud, Data, and AI capabilities.
• Help establish and evolve architectural standards, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices across the Data practice.
• Mentor and enable engineers and architects, helping raise the technical bar across the organization.
• Support solutioning and pre-sales conversations when deep Data expertise is required, helping customers understand both the technical approach and business value of the proposed solution

Why work at Zencore?

Zencore is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Zencore is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.