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 equivalent experience in a customer-facing role.
- 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 roadmaps.
- Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation processes paired with knowledge of computing solutions.
- Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Knowledge of technology solutions, with the ability to learn and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
- Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products.
- Ability to drive and influence audiences and identify expansion engagements within accounts.

About the job : As the Principal Architects within the customer engineering organization in Google Cloud, you will lead cross-functional teams to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies. In this role, you will embody executive level qualities, lead the conversation, and direct the execution of the sales team by combining both technical ideas and business insight. You will also partner with value engineering to articulate the true total 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 and 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 promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
- 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 required up to 50% of the time.

Google is proud to be an equal chance workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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