**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 engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
**Preferred qualifications**:
- Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based business activity within business cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
- Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed, general, cloud-based systems.
- Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation processes, with an understanding of computing solutions.
- Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products.
- Ability to drive and influence audiences, and identify expansion engagements within accounts.
- Ability to understand technology solutions and identify how it can provide value to a prospective customer.
**About the job**:
In this role, you will embody executive level qualities, lead the conversation, and direct the execution of the business team by combining both technical goals and business insights.
You will articulate the true total value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.
Your role is a hybrid technical and business advisor role.
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**:
- Build a trusted advisory relationship with accounts and engage with Architects, VP Engineering, C-levels, and identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
- Provide domain experience around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
- Manage the holistic 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.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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