"I even made them a schematic of our architecture on GCP at their request." >> Hahah. They did that to me too. I doubt they even looked at it. It was a fun hom

"I even made them a schematic of our architecture on GCP at their request." >> Hahah. They did that to me too. I doubt they even looked at it. It was a fun homework assignment though. "Once I provided that to them I was met with radio silence." >> Hahaha. Same here. "which will inevitably devolve into the discussion of how can I use BigQuery" >> This is a trap. Once you are on BQ there is no sane way off.