Practice Customer Engineer, Data Analytics, Google Cloud

Google; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a Data Analytics focus to partner with sales teams and differentiate Google Cloud for customers. You’ll serve as a technical expert accelerating wins on complex workloads, designing data foundation architectures, and developing MVPs to demonstrate new solutions.

You will collaborate with Platform CEs and product teams to address analytics challenges, provide customer feedback, and influence product direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with Big Data technologies or concepts (analytics warehousing, data processing, data governance, ETL/ELT, SQL, Spark).
• Experience using programming languages (Python, Spark, SQL) to demo, prototype, or workshop with customers.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Responsibilities

• Support local sales teams in pursuit of key business opportunities, and engage customers to address data lifecycle aspects.
• Identify business and technical requirements, conduct full technical discovery, and architect client solutions.
• Lead technical projects, including advocacy, bid support, briefings, POC work, and coordinating technical resources.
• Work with Google Cloud Platform products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer environments; travel as required.
• Prepare and deliver product messaging to highlight the Google Cloud Platform value proposition.

Skills

Cloud native architecture

Big data technologies

Programming languages (Python, Spark,

Stakeholder communication

Customer-facing experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Informatica

Talend

Alooma

SAP Data Services

Job description

The application window will be open until at least September 8, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Portland, OR, USA; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

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 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 (e.g., Python, Spark, SQL) to demo, prototype, or workshop with customers.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in writing code in a common development languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, Scala, R or Go.
• Experience in technical sales or professional consulting in the fields of cloud computing, data, information lifecycle management, and Big Data.
• Experience with developing data warehousing, data lakes, batch or real-time event processing and ETL workflows solutions (i.e., Informatica, Talend, Alooma, SAP, Data Services) which could include architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design, and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems.
• Ability to address DNS, TCP, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Load Balancing, VPN and VPC and working knowledge of Linux.

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.

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

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Support local sales teams in pursuit of key business opportunities, and with engage customers to address aspects of the data lifecycle.
• Identify business and technical requirements, conduct full technical discovery, and architect client solutions to meet gathered requirements.
• Take responsibility for leading technical projects, including such activities as technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of supporting technical resources.
• Work with Google Cloud Platform products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer/partner environments. Travel as required for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.
• Prepare and deliver product messaging in an effort to highlight the Google Cloud Platform value proposition, using techniques that include whiteboard and slide presentations, product demonstrations, white papers and RFI response documents.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .