APPLICATION ARCHITECT L1(CONTRACT)

In this role you lead the engineering delivery for a scalable, multi-tenant data integration platform on Google Cloud Platform. You guide design, standards, and hands-on contributions to ensure reliable ETL pipelines and end-to-end data lineage. You work with cross-functional partners to align technology with business priorities, driving maintainability, performance, and observability. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping a modern, resilient data platform.

• Own the platform technical roadmap aligning outcomes to priorities
• Lead design of new integrations and capabilities with maintainability in mind
• Set engineering standards for coding, testing, observability, and security
• Contribute hands-on on critical ETLs and framework components
• Design robust Airflow-based ETL pipelines with scheduling, retries, and backfills
• Establish onboarding patterns for source systems and reliable data delivery
• Drive data quality controls, validations, and runbooks
• Evolve multi-tenant architecture with isolation and scalable pipelines
• Improve build/deploy automation and CI/CD practices
• Implement end-to-end data lineage with visual traceability
• Enhance observability with logging, metrics, alerts, and dashboards
• Lead agile ceremonies and mentor engineers
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Partner with product, data owners, and governance teams to shape requirements
• Manage delivery expectations and unblock blockers

• Proven Technical Lead / Lead Engineer experience in data engineering or integration platforms in cloud environments
• Hands-on production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and Airflow orchestration
• Strong Google Cloud Platform experience (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow; GKE/Cloud Run; IAM, networking, secrets management)
• Solid software engineering foundations (Python, APIs, architecture, testing, performance)
• CI/CD expertise and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Experience designing for reliability (retries, idempotency, DLQ, backpressure)
• Ability to translate complex topics for mixed audiences and align teams

• Collaborative communication
• Mentorship and coaching
• Agile leadership and stakeholder management
• Python
• APIs
• Airflow (Composer)