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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or in a customer-facing role.
- Experience with cloud market and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.
- Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with structured enterprise architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and road maps.
- Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation process along with an understanding of large scale computing solutions and experience in building, architecting, designing and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Experience in, or supporting the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industries.
- Ability to work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products.
- Ability to influence the audience and identify growth engagements within accounts.
About the job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
As a Principal Architect, you will lead cross-functional teams to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies. In this role, you will lead conversation, and direct the execution of the Sales team by combining both technical direction and business insight. You will partner with Value Engineering to articulate the value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.
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, Vice President of Engineering, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer, and identify customer priorities, technical objections and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve issues.
- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
- Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement solution while providing best practices to customers to enhance Google Cloud.
- Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, technical teams, and more.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.