Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Architect Manager

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GCP Cloud Architect — Manager

Practice Overview

Skill / Operating Group

Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory

Level

Manager

Location

Gurugram / Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune / Kolkata

Travel

Expected travel could be anywhere between 0–100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it is more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems. Specialise in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organisations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Engineering.

Transforming Businesses: Developing customised, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

Overview

Lead GCP cloud architecture workstreams within large advisory and transformation programs, owning the design and delivery of architecture outcomes end-to-end. Act as the primary day-to-day architecture advisor to client VP and Director-level technology stakeholders — running architecture design sessions, facilitating trade-off decisions, and maintaining the architecture decision log. Own the detailed design of GCP Cloud Foundation Blueprints, Resource Hierarchy configurations, Organisation Policies, and IAM frameworks.

Lead the design of cloud security architecture for client engagements — developing Zero Trust network designs, IAM and access governance models, VPC Service Controls, Security Command Center configurations, and CMEK encryption frameworks across client GCP environments.

Lead FinOps workstreams — building financial governance frameworks, developing multi-year GCP cost models, designing chargeback and showback mechanisms, and identifying Committed Use Discount and rightsizing opportunities using GCP Billing and the Recommender API.

Own the IaC and platform engineering architecture for client engagements — defining standards and patterns using Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager, and Config Connector, and designing the governance model that ensures consistent infrastructure delivery. Lead the design of observability architectures using Google Cloud Operations Suite and third-party platforms such as Datadog and Dynatrace.

Contribute across adjacent areas — designing the cloud infrastructure that enables AI and agentic workloads using Vertex AI, Gemini on GCP, and Google Agentspace; providing cloud architecture inputs to Tech Modernization engagements including GKE and Cloud-native patterns; applying resilience architecture patterns to Technology Resiliency workstreams; and advising on ecosystem decisions covering Google Cloud partner network, ISV/MSP selection, and CUD commercial models.

Support business development through proposal contributions, cloud architecture solutioning, and client presentations. Identify and shape follow-on engagement opportunities. Contribute to reusable assets, reference architectures, and points of view that strengthen the practice's cloud architecture advisory capability.