Google Cloud Architect

Slalom Build

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 171,000 - 221,000

Full time

6 days ago

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401(k) match

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Slalom is seeking a Sr. Principal to lead enterprise Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, migration, and modernization programs. You will shape platform architecture, governance, and cost management while guiding teams toward secure, automated, and scalable cloud solutions.

As a trusted advisor, you will translate business priorities into strategic roadmaps, partner with Sales and Delivery, and drive practical outcomes across Google Cloud, AWS, security, data, and application ecosystems.

Qualifications

Significant experience leading enterprise Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, migration, modernization, or platform engineering programs.
Deep GCP architecture expertise across org policies, IAM, shared VPC, security, governance, and cost optimization.
Hands-on leadership with Terraform, Cloud CLI, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or comparable CI/CD platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead enterprise GCP infrastructure programs, including design, migration, and modernization efforts.
Translate business priorities into platform roadmaps, engineering outcomes, and measurable value.
Mentor architects and engineers, growing capability across the team.
Partner with Sales, Delivery, Google Cloud, and technical leaders to define scope, estimate work, and create repeatable offerings.

Skills

GCP architecture

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security & governance

Leadership

Cost optimization

Tools

Google Cloud CLI

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

Scripting

Job description

Google Cloud Platform leadership: Lead enterprise platform architecture and modernization across organization and folder design, project structure, landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, observability, resilience, and cost management.
Delivery leadership: Translate business priorities into practical platform roadmaps, engineering outcomes, and measurable value.
Engineering excellence: Set standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, policy as code, DevSecOps, SRE, and operational readiness.
Migration and modernization: Guide assessment, planning, Google Cloud foundation readiness, workload transition, modernization, and stabilization.
Solution shaping: Partner with Sales, Delivery, Google Cloud, and technical leaders to qualify opportunities, define scope, estimate work, and create repeatable offerings.
Technical advisory: Review architectures and operating models, resolve complex risks, and guide practical decisions.
People leadership: Mentor architects and engineers, grow capability, and strengthen technical communities.
Cross-cloud collaboration: Apply GCP-first expertise across AWS, SaaS, security, data, and application ecosystems.

What You’ll Bring

Significant experience leading enterprise Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, migration, modernization, or platform engineering programs.
Deep Google Cloud Platform architecture expertise across organization policies and resource hierarchy, Cloud Identity and IAM, shared VPC and hybrid connectivity, security, governance, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, storage and database services, observability, resilience, and cost optimization.
Hands-on leadership with Terraform, Google Cloud CLI and APIs, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or comparable CI/CD platforms, scripting, and automation.
Strong working knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine and Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, fleet and policy management, workload identity, networking, upgrades, reliability, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and change management.
Working knowledge of how data, analytics, and AI workloads influence Google Cloud Platform architecture, including their identity, networking, security, reliability, and cost requirements.
Consulting experience communicating with executive, business, architecture, security, and engineering stakeholders.
Experience shaping opportunities, defining scope, estimating delivery, and contributing to proposals and statements of work; P&L ownership is not required.
Sound judgment under ambiguity, with the ability to evaluate evidence, isolate risk, and drive action.
Collaborative leadership that develops others and remains accountable for quality and outcomes.
Responsible use of generative AI and coding assistants, with rigorous validation and ownership of results.

Additional Experience That Is Valuable

Google Cloud Platform migration and hybrid services, including Migration Center, Migrate to Virtual Machines, Database Migration Service, Storage Transfer Service, Google Distributed Cloud, VMware Engine, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
Enterprise Google Kubernetes Engine spanning secure cluster patterns, fleet management, workload identity, service networking, policy enforcement, observability, upgrades, and platform operations.
FinOps, reliability engineering, incident management, and postmortem practices.
Multi-cloud architecture or delivery experience across AWS or other major cloud platforms.
M&A integration, separation, tenant migration, or large-scale infrastructure transition experience.
Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Developer, IT service management, or FinOps certifications.

How Success Is Demonstrated

Clients trust your technical judgment and leadership on complex Google Cloud Platform decisions.
Engineering teams deliver secure, automated, supportable Google Cloud Platforms using clear standards and repeatable practices.
Google Cloud opportunities are shaped into realistic solutions with aligned scope, outcomes, risks, and delivery approaches.
Architects and engineers grow through your mentorship, review, and example.
You balance Google Cloud depth with the ability to select and integrate technologies that best support the client outcome.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The targeted base salary pay range for Sr. Principal is $171,000 to $221,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus

In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalomisanequalopportunityemployerandiscommittedtoattracting,developingandretaininghighlyqualifiedtalentwhoempowerourinnovativeteamsthroughuniqueperspectivesandexperiences.Allqualifiedapplicantswillreceiveconsiderationforemploymentwithoutregardtorace,color,religion,sex,nationalorigin,disabilitystatus,protectedveterans’status,oranyothercharacteristicprotectedbyfederal,state,orlocallaws.Slalomwillalsoconsiderqualifiedapplicationswithcriminalhistories,consistentwithlegalrequirements.Slalomwelcomesandencouragesapplicationsfromindividualswithdisabilities.Reasonableaccommodationsareavailableforcandidatesduringallaspectsoftheselectionprocess.Pleaseadvisethetalentacquisitionteamorcontact accomodationrequest@slalom.com ifyourequireaccommodationsduringtheinterviewprocess.

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Posting Business Function: Cloud innovation & modernization