Principal Architect, Data Analytics, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in the cloud market, competitive dynamics, and customer buying behaviors.
• Experience as an enterprise architect in a cloud computing environment or in a customer-facing role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
• Experience in network infrastructure, security, and application development.
• Knowledge of technology solutions, and ability to learn/understand emerging technologies/methodologies/solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
• Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally. Ability to engage/influence audiences and identify expansion engagements.
• Versed in the enterprise technology buying/evaluation process paired with an understanding of large-scale computing solutions.

Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally. Ability to engage/influence audiences and identify expansion engagements.Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally. Ability to engage/influence audiences and identify expansion engagements.

About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it’s a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP engineering, and C-level. Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
• Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
• Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.