Startup Cloud Solutions Architect – UK & Ireland

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth team seeks a seasoned Customer Engineer to drive high-impact technical engagements with rapidly scaling startups and VC-backed businesses. You will help founders, CTOs, and developers accelerate product delivery and optimize architecture on Google Cloud.

As a trusted advisor, you will guide modern data platforms, real-time analytics, and Generative AI workloads, collaborating with sales to design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Customer Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Developer Advocate) within the cloud computing industry.
• Experience designing, architecting, and deploying cloud-native applications, containerized environments (Kubernetes/GKE), and modern data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compelling presentations, product demonstrations, and technical workshops at Google events, accelerator programs (e.g., Plug n Play, local startup hubs), and industry conferences.
• Build and nurture strong, trusted-advisor relationships with startup CTOs, founders, lead architects, and engineering teams.
• Help customers design and scale modern data platforms using BigQuery, real-time streaming, and vector databases as the core foundation for their application logic and AI capabilities.
• Guide startups on implementing advanced AI workloads, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), RAG systems, and agentic workflows, utilizing both first-party (Gemini) and partner model ecosystems (e.g., Anthropic).
• Partner with the Sales team to qualify opportunities, address technical objections, and design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud architectures.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Customer-facing experience

Kubernetes/GKE

Modern data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kubernetes/GKE

BigQuery

Spark

Kafka

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vertex AI Vector Search

Job description

Google Cloud's UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth team seeks a seasoned Customer Engineer to drive high-impact technical engagements with rapidly scaling startups and VC-backed businesses. You will help founders, CTOs, and developers accelerate product delivery and optimize architecture on Google Cloud.

As a trusted advisor, you will guide modern data platforms, real-time analytics, and Generative AI workloads, collaborating with sales to design secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions