About the job

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.

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 benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted advisory relationships with accounts, engage with Architects, Vice President, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Information Officer to identify customer priorities, address technical objections, and design strategies across the Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.

• Provide domain expertise on public cloud and enterprise technology, promote Google Cloud with public sector customers at conferences and online.

• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement complete solutions while offering best practices to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.

• Manage enterprise architecture relationships with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, technical teams, and more.

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 in a customer-facing role.

• Experience with state, local and higher education markets in the state of Texas.

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

• Experience working with the state of Texas or executive leaders in Government agencies.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time as needed.

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, along with building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.

• Experience in building, architecting, and designing/implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.

• Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally to orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products.

• Ability to learn and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.