Customer Engineer, Data/Analytics, Google Public Sector

Google; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Google is looking for a Customer Engineer specializing in Data/Analytics for its Public Sector division. This role is based in Reston, VA, and emphasizes working with public sector clients to facilitate the adoption of Google Cloud products.

Ideal candidates will have extensive cloud-native experience, strong analytical skills, and be able to communicate effectively with technical stakeholders. The compensation package includes a salary range of $152,000 - $222,000, plus bonuses and equity options.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience developing data warehousing and data lakes.
• Experience in technical sales or consulting in cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical solutions for complex data analytics workloads.
• Build relationships with customers to secure buy-in.
• Provide deep technical consultation to customer stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Big Data technologies

Technical presentations

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

Spark

Job description

Customer Engineer, Data/Analytics, Google Public Sector

Location: Reston, VA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.

The application window will be open until at least June 25, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Experience with Big Data technologies or concepts (e.g., analytics warehousing, data processing, data transformation, data governance, data migrations, ETL, ELT, SQL, Spark, performance or scalability optimizations, batch versus streaming).
• Experience using programming languages to design demos, prototypes, or workshops for customers.
• Experience with developing data warehousing, data lakes, batch/real-time event processing, streaming, data processing, data migrations, data visualization tools, and data governance on cloud native architectures.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with customers in the Public Sector industry.
• Experience in technical sales or consulting in cloud computing, data analytics, or Big Data.
• Experience with architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems.
• Experience with aspects of cloud computing (infrastructure, storage, platforms and data), as well as the cloud market, competitive dynamics and customer buying behavior.
• Experience in understanding customer requirements with the ability to break down requirements and design technical architectures.

About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem‑solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Data Analytics, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our most strategic product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, to design data foundation architectures and develop MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers. You will solve analytics‑centered customer challenges and provide a critical feedback loop to unblock customers and influence product development.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose‑built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

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

US: $152,000 - $222,000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits.

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical win for complex workloads within data analytics to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the business cycle from use case identification, technical evaluation, and through customer ramp.
• Combine business strategies and direct development and prototyping to provide functional, customer‑tailored solutions that secure buy‑in from customer domain experts.
• Provide deep technical consultation to customers, acting as a technical advisor and building lasting customer relationships.
• Leverage learnings from customer engagements to contribute to reusable solutions and assets with the Go‑To‑Market team.
• Provide critical feedback from customer engagements to product and engineering teams to improve architectures and solutions. Work within product and engineering management systems to document, prioritize and drive resolution of customer feature requests and issues.

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