Director, GCP Cloud Platform & Data Engineering

Exol is bringing industry-leading automation to businesses of all sizes through an innovative warehouse-as-a-service model. As Director, GCP Cloud Platform & Data Engineering, you will lead a global team to own the architecture, deployment, and operation of Exol's multi-tenant Google Cloud Platform, ensuring secure and scalable environments for applications.

Responsibilities:

• Own the tenant modeling strategy, governing organization structure, resource isolation (compute/IAM), and automated provisioning
• Establish CI/CD standards, Cloud Run deployment automation, and release governance to ensure environment consistency
• Design enterprise-wide logging, tracing, and SLO-driven alerting standards to ensure production systems are diagnosable at scale
• Build multi-tenant data engineering frameworks using BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, and dbt (Medallion architecture)
• Define cloud patterns for high-throughput Pub/Sub architectures and secure data sharing across shared platform services
• Prevent platform fragmentation by establishing global standards for onboarding, security, and cost optimization
• Direct a distributed team (including India-based GCC) to deliver architectural reviews and operational readiness across time zones

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• Minimum 12 years in software/cloud engineering; 6 years in a leadership role
• GCP Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery
• Technical Depth: Proven track record in multi-tenant cloud architectures and shared platform operations
• Architectural Judgment: Ability to balance security, isolation, cost, and developer velocity
• Experience with Dataplex, AlloyDB, Datastream (CDC), and dbt
• Exposure to AI/RAG or agent-based architectures