Job Description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Gurugram, Haryana, India; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 15 years of experience as an enterprise architect in either a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role focussing on Retail/ Ecommerce Vertical.

• Experience in cloud computing, cloud market and competitive dynamics.

Preferred qualifications:

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

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 engineered 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 part of the Customer Engineering organization in Google Cloud, you will lead cross-functional teams of experts to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies. As a Principal Architect, you will embody executive-level qualities, facilitate the conversation and direct the execution of the Sales team by combining both vision and business insight. You will partner with Value Engineering in order to articulate the true total value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, Vice President of engineering, and executive-level, 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 effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure 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.

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