Job Description

Job Title: GCP Architect
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Vadodara
Notice Period: Immediate Joiner Only
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect with deep expertise in GCP, MongoDB, and Kafka to design and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong architectural leadership, hands-on development capability, and the ability to translate business needs into robust technical architectures.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design

• Architect highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Define end-to-end solution architectures including microservices, event-driven systems, API ecosystems, and data processing pipelines.

• Design MongoDB data models, indexing strategies, and sharding/partitioning approaches for optimized performance.

• Architect Kafka-based streaming solutions including topic hierarchy, consumer group strategy, message formats, and delivery semantics.

• Ensure all architectures follow best practices around scalability, availability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Prepare architecture documents, sequence diagrams, integration patterns, and logical/physical data models.

Hands-on Development

• Write and review high-quality code in Python, Java, Node.js, or Go.

• Build microservices, APIs, ingestion pipelines, Kafka producers/consumers, and GCP-native services.

• Conduct POCs and develop reusable frameworks, utilities, and automation components.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline setup, automated testing, and DevSecOps best practices.

• Troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and mentor developers.

Cloud Platform Expertise (GCP)

• Strong understanding of GKE, Cloud Run, GCE, GCS, VPC, IAM, and Load Balancing.

• Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Cloud Functions.

• Implement optimized cloud workloads with focus on performance and cost management.

• Set up observability frameworks including Cloud Logging, Monitoring, and APM.

MongoDB Expertise

• Expert in schema design aligned with application access patterns.

• Experience with MongoDB Atlas, replica sets, sharding, backup/restore, and performance tuning.

• Strong command over query patterns, aggregations, indexing, and schema evolution strategies.

Kafka Expertise

• Experience with Kafka clusters (self-managed or Confluent Cloud).

• Build Kafka producers, consumers, stream processors using KStreams/KSQL (nice to have).

• Expertise in Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and tuning for throughput & low-latency.

• Manage consumer lags, topic partitioning, replication, and high availability setup.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work with product managers, analysts, developers, and QA teams to convert requirements into technical designs.

• Provide architectural governance, technical mentorship, and thought leadership.

• Drive architecture, performance, and security reviews across teams.

DevOps & Security

• Experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab.

• Knowledge of IaC: Terraform for provisioning GCP environments.

• Implement secure coding practices: IAM, encryption, VPC design, secrets management.

• Conduct threat modeling and ensure compliance with organizational standards.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience including 4+ years in solution architecture.

• Strong hands-on expertise in GCP, MongoDB, and Kafka.

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language: Java, Python, Go, Node.js.

• Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, caching, messaging, and REST/API best practices.

• Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency cloud-native applications.

• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Excellent problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.

Skills Required