Senior Database Blackbelt, Google Cloud

8 Months ago • 8 Years + • $171,000 PA - $257,000 PA

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Job Description

As a Senior Database Blackbelt, you'll be a technical expert in database technologies, engaging with customers and partners to build innovative solutions using Google Cloud Native Databases. You will provide technical resources, support, and guidance, working with Product Management and Engineering to drive product excellence. Responsibilities include acting as a trusted advisor, solving complex database architecture problems, creating best practice recommendations and presentations, analyzing database environments, advising on document/NoSQL database systems on GCP, identifying business opportunities, and resolving technical blockers. The role requires expertise in NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchbase), database administration, data modeling, SQL and NoSQL database management systems, and experience managing client-facing projects.

Good To Have:

Database performance tuning
Backup, recovery, snapshot & partitioning
Firestore, Memorystore, Bigtable, DocumentDB experience
Query troubleshooting expertise

Must Have:

8+ years NoSQL experience (MongoDB, Couchbase)
Client-facing project management
Database administration & data engineering
Data modeling & warehousing expertise
SQL & NoSQL database management
Technical consulting experience

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with NoSQL database technologies (eg. MongoDB, Couchbase)
Experience managing client-facing projects, troubleshooting technical issues, and working with Engineering and Sales Services teams.
Experience with database administration techniques or data engineering.
Experience designing data models and data warehouses and using SQL and NoSQL database management systems.
If applicable: Ability to communicate fluently in [language(s)]

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in technical consulting.
Experience with database performance tuning and database management tools for backups, recovery, snapshot management, and partitioning.
Experience in one of the following: Firestore, Memorystore, Bigtable, MongoDB, DocumentDB, or Couchbase.
Knowledge of query troubleshooting (e.g. isolating blocks of poor performance, determining root cause, and developing remediation actions).

About the job

The Google Cloud team helps companies, schools, and government seamlessly make the switch to Google products and supports them along the way. You listen to the customer and swiftly problem-solve technical issues to show how our products can make businesses more productive, collaborative, and innovative. You work closely with a cross-functional team of web developers and systems administrators, not to mention a variety of both regional and international customers. Your relationships with customers are crucial in helping Google grow its Cloud business and helping companies around the world innovate.

As a Senior Database Blackbelt, you are expected to be a technical expert in database technologies and should be able to engage with our customers and partners with technical resources, support, and guidance to enable them to build innovative solutions using Google Cloud Native Databases. Additionally, you will work with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and constantly drive excellence in our products.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$257,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.

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Responsibilities

Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and solve complex database architecture and adoption problems.
Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations, tailoring approach and messaging to varied levels of business and technical stakeholders.
Analyze on-premises and cloud database environments and consult on the optimal design for performance and deployment on Google Cloud Platform.
Advise customers on developing and migrating to document/NoSQL database systems on Google Cloud Platform.
Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections and develop the strategy to resolve technical blockers, and travel as needed.