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Job Title: Big Query Architect – Telco Analytics (GCP)
Experience: 12-15 years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Main location: India, Karnataka, Bangalore
Position ID: J1125-1476
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced BigQuery Architect with strong telecommunications domain experience to design, govern, and optimize large-scale analytical data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role involves defining end-to-end data architecture, building scalable BigQuery-centric solutions, and enabling advanced analytics across network, customer, billing, and service assurance domains.
•Design and own BigQuery-based data warehouse and lakehouse architectures for Telco use cases (Network, CDR, Billing, OSS/BSS, Customer 360).
•Define data modeling standards (dimensional, wide tables, data products) optimized for Telco analytics workloads.
•Establish partitioning, clustering, cost-control, and performance optimization strategies in BigQuery.
•Experience on on-prem and cloud data warehouses like Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, Teradata, Databricks, Snowflake preferred
•Application and Data Migration experience mandatory
•Architect and oversee end-to-end data pipelines using BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Dataproc, Data Fusion, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage.
•Design batch and streaming ingestion frameworks for high-volume Telco data (CDRs, alarms, KPIs, logs).
•Guide implementation using GoogleSQL, Python, PySpark, and Airflow DAGs.
•Experience on on-prem and cloud data warehouses like Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server, Teradata, Databricks, Snowflake preferred
•12-15 years of experience in Data Engineering / Data Architecture, with 3+ years on GCP BigQuery.
•Strong hands-on and architectural expertise in BigQuery (schema design, optimization, cost management).
•Proven experience designing large-scale Telco data platforms.
•Expert in GoogleSQL, Python, PySpark, and Airflow DAGs.
•Strong understanding of data warehousing, ELT/ETL, dimensional modeling, and analytics patterns.
•Experience with CI/CD, Git, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred).
•Hands-on with streaming and high-volume data ingestion (Pub/Sub, Dataflow).
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