Principal Architect, State, Local, and Education, Public Sector

2 Days ago • 10 Years + • DevOps • $147,000 PA - $218,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal Architect at Google Cloud Platform, you'll be a hybrid technical and business advisor, leading cross-functional teams to help public sector clients design, plan, implement, and govern cloud strategies. You'll build trusted relationships with clients (Architects, VPs, CTOs, CIOs), identifying priorities, technical objections, and designing strategies across the Google ecosystem. Responsibilities include providing domain expertise in public cloud and enterprise technology, making recommendations on integration strategies, and managing enterprise architecture relationships. You'll promote Google Cloud to customers and at events, collaborating with specialists and technical teams. Travel is required (approximately 30%). The role demands executive-level qualities, leading conversations and directing sales teams by combining technical direction and business insight, articulating the total value of each solution.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 10+ years experience as enterprise architect
  • Cloud computing experience (applications, infrastructure, data)
  • Build trusted advisory relationships with accounts
  • Provide domain expertise and promote Google Cloud
Good to have:
  • Experience with structured enterprise architecture practices
  • Hybrid cloud deployments and on-premise-to-cloud migrations
  • Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation
  • Building highly distributed global cloud-based systems
  • Presenting to technical and executive leaders
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


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 in cloud market insights and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.

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 an understanding of large-scale computing solutions.
  • Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.
  • Experience working with and presenting to, technical, scientific, and executive leaders in Government agencies.
  • Knowledge of technology solutions and 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.

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 part of the Customer Engineering organization in Google Public Sector, you will lead cross-functional teams of experts to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern cloud strategies in the public sector space.

The Google Cloud Principal Architect role is a hybrid technical and business advisor role. In this role, you will exhibit executive level qualities, lead the 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 true total value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Public Sector.

brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$218,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Build a trusted advisory relationship with accounts and engage with Architects, Vice President Engineering, Chief Technical 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 blockers.
  • Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Google Cloud with public sector customers, at conferences, and online.
  • Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution while providing best practices to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
  • Manage the 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 (can vary, on average ~30%).

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