Description

**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 (distributed systems, designing a system under certain constraints, simplicity, limitations, robustness and tradeoffs).

+ Ability to travel 20% of the time as required.

**Preferred qualifications:**

+ Experience of engaging product organization and influencing others to work on product features to drive the overall product strategy and roadmap.

+ Experience in leading various teams including engineers, architects, and technical consultants on cloud migration engagements.

+ Experience creating solution architecture for various industry services workloads and considering the operational needs of an organization.

+ Experience creating technology strategy, capability roadmaps, and implementation approaches for migration programs.

+ Understanding of modern application migration and modernization approaches.

+ Excellent organizational, investigative and influencing skills.

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 across industries in helping transform their businesses through the innovative use of Google Cloud Platform. You will work cross-functionally, Cloud strategy and enterprise architecture, solutions delivery , migration advisory , and engineering expertise for GCP customers. As part of the professional services team, you will work on customer Request for Proposals (RFP) proposals, SOWs and partnering with Sales, Customer Engineering, partners to deliver technical architecture and services strategy. You will help inform the scope of services staffing and timelines.

You will advise customers on architecture best practices , Industry solutions, architectural blueprints for making best use of Google cloud in migration or cloud native implementations. You are part of a team that will propose, develop, and implement new approaches as well as strive for execution consistency, and repeatability for these engagements. You will represent and deliver best practices across the areas of infrastructure/application/networking/data modernization and more. You will collaborate cross-functionally within Google, as well as support the services partner community.

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:**

+ Drive the cloud design, architecture and technical delivery across infrastructure, network, operations, application migrations by providing technical direction and design thought leadership, thereby ensuring technical outcomes for workload migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) considering the technical and delivery constraints.

+ Engage with Architects and act as an executive technical advisor to build confidence and organize overall IT strategy aligned to the broader business needs.

+ Work with the customer teams to influence acceleration of adoption of Google Cloud in a safe, secure, resilient and scalable manner and recommend best-practice architectures.

+ Drive industry centric accelerators/assets/pov to create broader impact across the industry in a specific domain or a technology area.

+ Provide recommendations on the customer's cloud architecture and ensure the optimal, resilient, secure and cost efficient design along with adhering to Google's best practices guidelines.

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