Data Solution Architect

Overview

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence to Beauty. Our IT teams design and build solutions to ensure high performance for all business sectors, from websites to data pipelines, AI, cybersecurity, Cloud, and e‑Marketing. This role is a senior position requiring significant experience and a deep understanding of data engineering within the GCP ecosystem. The GCP Architect is responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines and managing the entire data lifecycle with a strong emphasis on security and governance. The successful candidate will help shape the organization’s data strategy and deliver high‑quality data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Data pipeline architecture and development using GCP services (Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub / Sub).
• Establishing and enforcing data governance policies, data quality standards, access control, and data lineage tracking; data cataloging and metadata management.
• Defining and implementing overall data architecture, including storage (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Datastore), warehousing, and data lake strategies.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Build and maintain data models; assemble large, complex data sets for functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements to automate and optimize data delivery and infrastructure scalability.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to agile teams, including code reviews, mentoring, and adherence to architectural principles and coding standards.
• Create clear architectural diagrams to communicate data flows to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Promote best practices for coding, naming conventions, and design patterns.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and queries (e.g., BigQuery queries, slot management, and on‑demand slots).
• Collaborate with product and technical leads, GCP Architecture, and SRE teams.
• Design processes for bringing data into the GCP environment from various sources, including real‑time streaming and batch uploads.
• ETL design and management, including data cleansing, transformation, and loading into data warehouses or data lakes.
• Understand data sharing mechanisms, access control, and API development for distributing data to internal and external consumers.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms, manage user roles and permissions, and ensure data privacy compliance.

Qualifications

Business Intelligence And Domain Expertise

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L’Oréal, we are committed to diversity, inclusion, and innovation. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

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