About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business challenges. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs-of-concepts and demos, and use the expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans.

You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics, and more. You will blend business and market knowledge and technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

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

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting business.

• Combine programming and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through demos, pilots, and workshops.

• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.

• Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.

• Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration, or implementation phases.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.

• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

• Ability to communicate in Japanese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in one or more of the following areas: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, security, networking, migrations, or SAP.

• Experience driving business cycles.

• Experience building strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.

• Experience in defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution.

• Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.

• Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and pen-testing.