GCP Architect
Required skills
- GCP
- Cloud Healthcare API
- FHIR
- BigQuery
- GCS
- Dataflow
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- Firestore
- Redis
Nice to have
- FHIR R4
- HL7v2
- EMPI/MPI
- Healthcare Interoperability
- Healthcare Data Governance
- Multi-region DR
Role summary
Seeking a remote GCP Cloud Architect to lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform on Google Cloud. This role involves designing end-to-end cloud architecture, including networking, security, data pipelines, API integration, IaC, observability, and DR. Responsibilities include architecting data ingestion and analytics using GCP services like BigQuery, Dataflow, and Healthcare API/FHIR, defining security patterns, and developing migration roadmaps. A Google Professional Cloud Architect certification is mandatory, with preferred skills in healthcare interoperability and specific GCP services.
This is a remote position.
GCP Cloud Architect
Project Description
Healthcare data platform modernization on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Cloud Healthcare API / FHIR. The platform will support clinical data ingestion from on-premises systems, healthcare data processing and analytics through BigQuery, and secure API access for EMRs, partners, government agencies, and patient-facing applications. The architect will own end-to-end cloud architecture, including networking, security, data pipelines, API integration, Infrastructure as Code, observability, resilience, and DR.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture workshops with client and partner stakeholders.
- Design and document end-to-end GCP architecture and target-state solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
- Architect data ingestion and processing using Dataflow, Healthcare API/FHIR, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Firestore, and Redis.
- Design analytics architecture using BigQuery and GCS.
- Design and secure FHIR Store and Consent API implementations.
- Define orchestration using Cloud Composer/Airflow and Artifact Registry.
- Establish IAM, Secret Manager, and Cloud KMS security patterns.
- Design hybrid connectivity using Cloud Interconnect and secure private connectivity.
- Architect API integrations using IBM APIC or Apigee.
- Define resilience, backup, multi-region, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Collaborate with observability and security teams.
- Develop current-state to target-state implementation and migration roadmaps.
Requirements
Mandatory Requirements
- Strong GCP Cloud Architecture experience.
- Hands-on expertise with BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Composer, GCS, Cloud SQL, Firestore, and Memorystore/Redis.
- Strong Terraform experience for multi-project GCP provisioning, including VPC, IAM, Interconnect, service accounts, and organization policies.
- Experience with Cloud Build or Jenkins/GitLab CI, container pipelines, Artifact Registry, and GitOps.
- Strong knowledge of Cloud Interconnect, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Private Service Connect, and perimeter security.
- Experience with IBM API Connect (APIC) or Apigee and partner/B2B API integrations.
- Experience with hybrid identity and GCP IAM integration.
- Experience supporting multiple external integrations and API consumers.
- Experience developing current-state to target-state architecture roadmaps.
- Strong communication and stakeholder workshop facilitation skills.
- Google Professional Cloud Architect certification – mandatory.
Preferred Skills
- Cloud Healthcare API, FHIR R4, HL7v2, EMPI/MPI.
- Healthcare interoperability and healthcare data governance.
- Multi-region DR/resilience and backup architecture.
- Dynatrace, Splunk, Wiz, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow.
- Monolith-to-microservices transformation.
- Pub/Subfor event-driven ingestion.
- GKE/Kubernetes.
- Dataplex and DLPfor PHI/PII classification, lineage, and masking.
Originally posted on Himalayas
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