Principal Architect, Enterprise Team

Qodea; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology group is seeking a professional to enhance market penetration of Google Cloud products. The ideal candidate will have pre-sales experience and ensure the alignment of technical solutions with business value. This role offers competitive compensation, a matching pension scheme, and a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Private medical insurance

Flexible working hours

36 days annual leave

Employee referral scheme

Tech Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or sales engineering support role.
• Familiarity with a major public cloud platform, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
• Ability to present technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Increase market penetration of Google Cloud products.
• Work closely with commercial team to drive revenue.
• Engage with senior client-side stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud Knowledge

Communication Skills

Commercial Awareness

Team Player

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

Professional-level Google Cloud certification

Job description

Commercial / London

where work matters.

Elevate your career at Qodea, where innovation isn't just a buzzword, it's in our DNA.

We are a global technology group built for what's next, offering high calibre professionals the platform for high stakes work, the kind of work that defines an entire career. When you join us, you're not just taking on projects, you're solving problems that don't even have answers yet.

You will join the exclusive roster of talent that global leaders, including Google, Snap, Diageo, PayPal, and Jaguar Land Rover call when deadlines seem impossible, when others have already tried and failed, and when the solution absolutely has to work.

Forget routine consultancy. You will operate where technology, design, and human behaviour meet to deliver tangible outcomes, fast. This is work that leaves a mark, work you’ll be proud to tell your friends about.

Qodea is built for what’s next. An environment where your skills will evolve at the frontier of innovation and AI, ensuring continuous growth and development.

We look for people who embody:

Innovation to solve the hardest problems.

Accountability for every result.

Integrity always.

About The Role

Your primary focus will be to increase the market penetration of Google Cloud products and services. You will work closely with your colleagues at Qodea and collaborate with Google to nurture existing customers and identify new opportunities within the existing customer base.

This role is designed for impact, and we believe our best work happens when we connect. While we operate a flexible model, we expect you to spend time on site (at our offices or a client location) for collaboration sessions, customer meetings, and internal workshops.

What Success Looks Like

• Strategic Partnering: Work with the commercial team through the sales process, from initial discovery to final presentation, to help drive revenue.
• Executive Engagement: Participate in technical discussions with senior client-side stakeholders, including CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and Enterprise Architects, with the goal of becoming a trusted advisor.
• Technical Translation: Help translate intricate technical requirements related to infrastructure, security, data, or AI into clear and simple business outcomes for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Solution Architecting: Assist in architecting and designing high-level Cloud solutions that integrate Qodea's platform, addressing customer needs and ensuring a clear path to successful migration and modernisation.
• Sales Acceleration: Help identify and overcome technical objections, assist in proof-of-concept demonstrations, and provide technical validation to shorten the sales process.
• Technical Liaison: Act as a point of contact between the pre-sales process and Qodea's internal Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), engaging them strategically to support complex deal cycles.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Relevant Experience: Experience in a pre-sales, solutions architecture, or sales engineering support role within a software or cloud services environment.
• Cloud Knowledge: Familiarity with a major public cloud platform. Ideally, experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including infrastructure, application modernisation, and data services. A professional‑level Google Cloud certification is a plus. Alternatively, experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be considered for candidates willing to learn and become proficient in Google Cloud.
• Communication Skills: The ability to present technical concepts clearly and build good relationships with technical leaders.
• Commercial Awareness: Understanding of the sales process and the ability to connect technical solutions with business value.
• Team Player: Eagerness to collaborate effectively with commercial colleagues.
• Problem‑Solving Skills: The ability to understand customer needs, identify challenges, and contribute to developing solutions.

We believe in supporting our team members both professionally and personally. Here's how we invest in you:

Compensation and Financial Wellbeing

• Competitive base salary.
• Matching pension scheme (up to 5%) from day one.
• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• 4 x annual salary Death in Service coverage from day one.
• Employee referral scheme.
• Tech Scheme.

Health and Wellness

• Private medical insurance from day one.
• Optical and dental cash back scheme.
• Help@Hand app: access to remote GPs, second opinions, mental health support, and physiotherapy.
• EAP service.
• Cycle to Work scheme.

Work-Life Balance and Growth

• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
• An extra paid day off for your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours.
• Market‑leading parental leave.
• Sabbatical leave (after five years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).
• Industry‑recognised training and certifications.
• Bonusly employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards.
• Regular company events.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all.