Cloud Enterprise Architect, Professional Services, Google Cloud

Cloud Enterprise Architect, Professional Services, Google Cloud Overview

This position sits within Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services, where the team supports customers through the most important stages of their cloud transformation journey. The work focuses on helping organizations evolve their businesses using Google’s global infrastructure, large-scale data center capabilities, and software platform. In this role, you would help enterprise customers design, migrate, and modernize their environments on Google Cloud while working in a fast-moving, highly collaborative business.

As an Enterprise Architect, you would partner with customers to shape how they move to Google Cloud Platform and how they modernize their infrastructure, applications, and data. The role combines pre-sales architecture support, delivery involvement, migration guidance, and deep technical advising for Google’s largest customers. You would work closely with sales and customer engineering teams on proposal development and Requests for Proposals, helping define the technical architecture, the services approach, the expected scope of work, and the likely delivery timeline. The position also involves helping teams create approaches that can be repeated consistently across engagements, rather than one-off solutions.

You would be expected to advise customers on architecture principles and create blueprints that serve as the basis for migration to Google Cloud. The role also includes helping develop and implement new methods that improve consistency and repeatability in delivery. In addition, you would represent best practices across infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data modernization, and related technical areas, while collaborating with teams across Google and with the wider services partner community.

What you would do

• Build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders across customer and partner organizations so that technical solutions and services are delivered successfully.
• Use your technical judgment and developer insight to shape important product decisions.
• Expand the reach of existing solutions or turn them into reusable assets, such as recommended practices, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and thorough documentation.
• Work with internal and external developers, users, partners, clients, and other stakeholders to plan and guide solution code development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across organizations and throughout the process lifecycle to provide technical direction and identify current or new solution offerings that can help achieve the desired outcome.
• Support enterprise customers with pre-sales architecture work, delivery planning, and migration execution for Google Cloud engagements.
• Contribute to RFP responses and proposal work by partnering with sales and customer engineering on architecture and services strategy.
• Help determine the scope of services, the staffing model, and the expected delivery schedule for customer projects.
• Advise on architecture best practices and produce architectural blueprints that support migration to Google Cloud.
• Help create, refine, and implement approaches that make delivery more consistent and repeatable across engagements.
• Promote and apply best practices in infrastructure, application, and data modernization.
• Work across Google and with services partners to support successful customer outcomes.

What the role asks for

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands-on practical experience.
• At least seven years spent troubleshooting technical issues for internal or external partners or customers.
• Experience with system design or the ability to read code in a language such as Java, C++, or Python.
• A master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Applied Science, or a related subject is preferred.
• At least ten years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software development, or customer-side web technologies.
• At least ten years of experience in data analysis and SQL/MySQL.
• At least ten years in a customer-facing position.
• At least ten years in operations management, including process improvement, operational review, and workflow optimization.
• At least ten years working with Unix or Linux systems and command-line tools.
• Strong capability in dealing with ambiguous problems, making decisions, taking ownership of outcomes, and influencing stakeholders with deep domain expertise.
• English fluency, since Google states that English proficiency is required for all roles unless the posting says otherwise.

Additional context

The role is based in London, UK. The posting does not describe a remote or hybrid arrangement, so the working pattern is presented as office-based/on-site in London. The team context is Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services, supporting enterprise customers and partner ecosystems as they transform their businesses using Google Cloud.

Google also notes that it is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and that it is committed to building a workforce that reflects the users it serves. The company says it supports a culture of belonging and provides equal employment opportunity regardless of protected characteristics such as race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy-related conditions, and other legally protected categories.

If you need an accommodation during the application process, Google says you can request one through its applicants’ accommodations form. The company also states that it does not accept agency resumes and will not pay fees for unsolicited resumes sent by agencies or individuals.

Google further explains that information collected through a Google Careers profile and any applications submitted is handled under its Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy. It also notes that equity grants, when offered, are discretionary, subject to Alphabet approval and the relevant stock plan and grant agreement, and do not create any guaranteed entitlement.

To apply, use the application process available through Google Careers for this role in London.

Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s

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