Principal Architect, Data
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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)
Responsibilities
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.
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Zencore
View Company ProfileZencore is a premier, enterprise-grade cloud consulting and engineering firm engineered to orchestrate massive-scale Google Cloud (GCP) transformation and AI-modernization ecosystems. Operating as a "boutique" hub founded by former Google Cloud engineers and executives, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional, legacy cloud-services models—which frequently suffer from fragmented expertise, opaque project-delivery timelines, and slow modernization cycles—by seamlessly deploying their opinionated, engineer-to-engineer delivery methodology, rigorous cloud-native architectures, and cohesive cross-departmental technical-consulting frameworks. Moving beyond rigid legacy IT-service paradigms, Zencore empowers global enterprises and digital natives to dynamically synchronize their data-analytics, infrastructure-modernization, and Generative AI pipelines with elite, scalable, and audit-ready execution. Under the hood, their sophisticated proprietary operational infrastructure—built on deep-insider knowledge of the Google Cloud ecosystem—natively manages complex cloud-migration ingestion, instantaneous automated architectural optimization, and secure AI-agent orchestration, providing the necessary operational foundation for organizations to leverage enterprise AI at scale. What sets Zencore apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless cloud-orchestration; by bridging the gap between highly technical, performance-intensive GCP demands and accessible, high-velocity digital-transformation experiences, the firm empowers modern engineering organizations to radically accelerate their modernization-velocity, eliminate systemic cloud-adoption bottlenecks, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous commercial and institutional dominance in the modern, AI-transformed global-technology landscape.
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