GCP Application Technical Lead

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced engineering professional to provide technical leadership, drive software delivery, and collaborate with business, product, and cross-functional technology teams. The role requires strong hands-on development experience, sound architecture and design skills, and the ability to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-quality solutions in an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership, engineering expertise, and technical direction to engineering teams.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, and cross-functional technology groups to support continuous delivery.

• Drive user story analysis, elaboration, solution design, software development, testing, and automation.

• Own technical aspects of software development, including architecture, design, coding, API specifications, proof of concepts, code reviews, and sprint delivery.

• Promote consistent development practices, reusable tools, and common components across teams.

• Develop a strong understanding of integrations with related systems and platforms.

• Work with technical product managers on blueprints, feature planning, and technology roadmaps.

• Identify opportunities to adopt new technologies to address current needs and anticipate future challenges.

• Communicate solution designs effectively to internal and external business partners.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills

• Ability to interpret technical and business objectives and challenges

• Porting and software configuration

• Agile methodologies

• Software development and testing

• Object-oriented analysis and design across multiple platforms

• Designing high availability applications

Product engineering knowledge

Skill Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial software development experience

• Proficient in developing and hosting solutions on Google Cloud Platform, including Google Cloud Storage and Big Query

• Hands-on experience with Big Data platforms such as Scala, Spark, Hive SQL, and Big Data Lake

• Experience and proficiency in ETL processes, ETL tools, and data modelling in Big Data platforms

• Proficiency in Secure File Transfer operations and use in data management

• Experience with Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, including CI/CD pipeline tools

• Experience with automated release management using Maven, Salt, Git, and Jenkins

• Experience in architecture design and modelling for complex systems and architectures

• Good understanding of web technologies such as HTTP and Apache, and familiarity with Unix/Linux

• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

• Strong written communication and documentation abilities

• Proactive approach to identifying continuous improvement opportunities

• Leadership and communication skills to lead teams and collaborate with stakeholders

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels across technical and non-technical functions

Other Requirements

Secondary / BI Skills

• Design and develop end-to-end business intelligence solutions using the Power BI stack

• Define and implement robust data models, metrics, and KPIs to support reporting and advanced analytics

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable multidimensional and tabular data models for interactive analytics and reporting

• Demonstrate proficiency in DAX, Power Query, and SQL, with expertise in designing intuitive Power BI dashboards and reports

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize BI solutions, reports, cubes, and semantic models for performance, scalability, and reliability

• Develop and maintain BI frameworks, semantic layers, and metadata repositories to support data governance, standardization, and administration