Solutions Architect Manager, Google Cloud

Google Inc.; London; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company, seeks a Solution Architect Manager to lead a team in promoting Google Cloud solutions. Your responsibilities will include providing expertise in public cloud technologies, shaping customer strategies, and delivering best practices. Join a rapidly growing team focused on creating impactful cloud solutions for diverse businesses.

Qualifications

• 7 years experience managing technical engineers.
• 2 years people management experience.
• Experience with industry analysis and technology sales.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Solution Architects to enhance their impact.
• Promote Google Cloud technologies with customers and at events.
• Support sales teams in new customer engagements.

Skills

Software coding in Java or Python

Public cloud expertise

Enterprise technology knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Job description

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience managing technical engineers.
• 2 years of people management experience.
• Experience with writing software code in one or more languages such as Java or Python.
• Experience working with industry analysis and enterprise technology sales.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent work experience in a software/systems engineering or lead position.
• Experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Spinnaker, TeamCity, Bamboo or another automation workflow engine.
• Experience designing, building, and managing applications on Google Cloud.
• Understanding of the current state of machine learning, cloud migrations, continuous integration/deployment, SQL/NoSQL, security, networking, and cloud-based delivery models.
• Knowledge of tools like Chef, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes for managing the configuration of your deployed workloads.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Solution Architect Manager you will lead a team of Solution Architects to help them scale their impact to make cloud easier. You should also be able to individually add value with customers and solutions, leading the team from the front.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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

• Provide subject matter expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology and effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Support account managers and sales engineering teams as needed through all phases of new customer engagement.
• Work with the team to create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted for technical and business stakeholders.
• Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help shape product direction.