Cloud Enterprise Architect III, Professional Services, Google Cloud

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Cloud Enterprise Architect, you will work with customers in helping transform their businesses through the use of Google Cloud Platform. You will work cross-functionally, providing pre-sales enterprise architecture support, solutions delivery and migration, and engineering expertise for Google’s largest customers. As part of the professional services team, you will work on customer Request for Proposal (RFPs) and proposal processes, partnering with Sales and Customer Engineering counterparts to deliver technical architecture and services strategy. You will help inform the scope of services staffing and timelines.

You will advise customers on architecture best practices and architectural blueprints as the foundation for migration to Google Cloud. You will be a part of a team that will propose, develop, and implement new approaches as well as strive for execution consistency, and repeatability for these engagements. You will represent and deliver best practices across the areas of infrastructure/application/data modernization and more. You will collaborate cross-functionally within Google, as well as support our services partner community.

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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $183000 - $266000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Work with prospects looking to move their enterprise IT estate to public or hybrid cloud, providing enterprise architecture, goal, and recommended professional services to enable digital transformation.
  
• Recommend and document migration paths, integration strategies, and application architectures required to successfully implement complete solutions using best practices on Google Cloud.
  
• Oversee technical delivery excellence, exceptional customer satisfaction, and accurate estimation of customer outcomes.
  
• Drive the capturing, developing, and sharing of best practices internally and externally to accelerate implementations.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in customer-facing services translating enterprise customer needs into cloud solutions.
• Experience developing solution architectures using system design techniques (e.g., distributed systems or system constraints).
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time, as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong understanding of modern application migration and modernization approaches.
  
• Excellent organizational, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated cloud architectural capabilities with a broad set of enterprise use cases.
  
• Demonstrated record of implementing cloud or software projects in corporate environments.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Chicago, IL, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

The application window will be open until at least June 24, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year