Cloud Enterprise Architect III, Professional Services, Google Cloud

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will work with customers in helping transform their businesses through the innovative use of Google Cloud Platform. You will work cross-functionally, providing pre-sales enterprise architecture support, solutions delivery and migration, and engineering expertise for Google’s largest customers. As part of the professional services team, you will work on customer RFPs and proposal processes, partnering with Sales and Customer Engineering counterparts to deliver technical architecture and services strategy. You will help inform the scope of services staffing and timelines.

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

• Work with prospects looking to move their enterprise IT estate to public or hybrid cloud, providing enterprise architecture, goal, and recommended professional services to enable digital transformation.
  
• Recommend and document migration paths, integration strategies, and application architectures required to successfully implement complete solutions using best practices on Google Cloud.
  
• Oversee technical delivery excellence, exceptional customer satisfaction, and accurate estimation of customer outcomes.
  
• Drive the capturing, developing, and sharing of best practices internally and externally to accelerate implementations.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in customer-facing services focused on translating enterprise customer needs into cloud solutions.
  
• Experience in developing solution architectures through system design techniques (Sample topics include distributed systems, designing a system under certain constraints, simplicity, limitations, robustness and trade-offs).
• Ability to travel 20% of the time as required.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong understanding of modern application migration and modernization approaches.
  
• Demonstrated record of implementing large-scale cloud or software projects in corporate environments.
  
• Demonstrated cloud architectural capabilities with a broad set of enterprise use cases.
  
• Excellent organizational, investigative and influencing skills.