Senior Consultant - GCP Data & AI Architect

Deloitte

• $80K — $138K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years total technology experience; 4-6 years hands-on delivering data platforms on Google Cloud.
  • Working knowledge of Gemini Enterprise and the Vertex AI stack with a strong focus on data safety.
  • Understanding of the necessary data foundation for agentic AI, including semantic layers and access controls.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.
  • Proficient in transformation and orchestration tools like Dataform, dbt, and Cloud Composer / Airflow.
  • Strong data modeling skills and governance fluency in cloud environments.
  • Ability to lead data workstreams through all phases of enterprise projects.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and manage the delivery of data platforms on Google Cloud.
  • Design data ingestion, transformation, and serving layers using advanced tooling.
  • Implement governance frameworks to ensure analytics and AI workloads are secure and auditable.
  • Collaborate with GCP architects to develop foundational elements for AI models.
  • Lead a small team of engineers in executing data platform strategies.

Benefits

  • $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits.
  • $1,300 flexible benefit spending account.
  • Dedicated Development and Innovation Days for learning.
  • Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work environment.
  • Unique benefits such as 'Deloitte Days' for firm-wide closures.
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Job Type: Permanent Work Model: Hybrid Reference code: 135133 Primary Location: Toronto, ON All Available Locations: Toronto, ON

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What will your typical day look like?

As our ideal candidate, you will combine deep GCP technical expertise with client-facing consulting skills. On a typical engagement you will:
  • Architect and lead delivery of modern data platforms on Google Cloud - data lakes, lakehouses, and warehouses built on BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.
  • Design ingestion, transformation, and serving layers using Dataform / dbt, Composer (Airflow), and BigQuery-native patterns; drive migrations from Teradata, Netezza, on-prem Hadoop, or other clouds.
  • Stand up the governance backbone - Dataplex catalog, lineage, quality rules, row/column-level security, VPC-SC - so downstream analytics and AI workloads are safe and auditable.
  • Partner with our GCP Agent Platform Architects to make the semantic layer, retrieval indices, and feature stores that Gemini agents and Vertex AI models depend on.
  • Lead 2-4 engineers on the delivery team; contribute to Deloitte's data-platform reference architectures, accelerators, and enablement.


About the team

The focus and passion of Deloitte's Cloud Engineering practice is to help our clients become a place where their employees are passionate about the work they do, and can dramatically accelerate the speed at which they deliver value. We are a specialized capability within our technology consulting practice in Canada, focused on the technical, organizational, and cultural elements that must be considered when helping our clients embrace the Cloud mindset. With an established foothold in the Cloud domain, we are excited to be growing our Google Cloud footprint - including Gemini Enterprise agentic solutions - to continue to enable our clients. Our key clients span industries including financial services, energy and resources, consumer and retail, digital-native, and public sector.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

This is a Senior Consultant role: 7-10 years of total experience with 4-6 years hands-on on Google Cloud (or equivalent cloud with a credible GCP transition path). You will lead workstreams and mentor 2-4 junior team members while working under the direction of a Manager or Senior Manager.

Qualifications
  • 7-10 years total technology experience; 4-6 years hands-on delivering data platforms on Google Cloud.
  • Working knowledge of Gemini Enterprise and the Vertex AI stack - Vertex AI Search, embeddings and vector indices, grounding on BigQuery / Cloud Storage - and a clear point of view on how to expose enterprise data to agents safely.
  • Understanding of the data-foundation prerequisites for agentic AI: canonical semantic layer, entity resolution, metadata and lineage, row/column-level access controls that carry through to agent-time retrieval.
  • Deep hands-on with BigQuery (partitioning, clustering, materialized views, BI Engine, cost governance), Dataproc, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.
  • Experience with transformation and orchestration tooling: Dataform, dbt, Cloud Composer / Airflow.
  • Strong data-modeling skills - dimensional, Data Vault, and modern lakehouse patterns; comfortable choosing between them for the client's use case.
  • Governance and security fluency: Dataplex, IAM, VPC-SC, CMEK, DLP, row/column access policies.
  • Proficient in SQL and Python; comfortable with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
  • Track record of leading a data workstream through discovery, design, build, and hypercare on at least two enterprise engagements.
  • Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management.


Good to have
  • GCP certification (Professional Data Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect).
  • Experience with streaming architectures (Pub/Sub + Dataflow, Kafka on GKE).
  • Exposure to real-time features for ML and agentic use cases.
  • Familiarity with Databricks-on-GCP or Snowflake-on-GCP interop scenarios.
  • Prior professional-services or regulated-industry (financial services, public sector, healthcare) experience.
  • Security Clearance (Reliability / Secret)


Language requirement (Montreal)

For candidates based in Montreal: proficiency in French (spoken and written) is required, in addition to English, to serve our Quebec-based clients and colleagues in accordance with Bill 96.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $138,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

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