Principal Architect, Banking and Financial Services, Google Cloud

Google Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global tech company is seeking a Principal Architect to lead cloud strategies and engage with enterprise clients. You will collaborate with strategic accounts to provide innovative solutions, influence stakeholders, and deliver value using cutting-edge technology in a hybrid environment. Ideal candidates have a decade of architecture experience and deep expertise in cloud solutions. This role includes travel and extensive engagement with technical teams to drive enterprise strategies.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or in a customer-facing role.
• Experience with cloud market and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Responsibilities

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts.
• Provide domain knowledge around public cloud and enterprise technology.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies and enterprise architectures.
• Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers.
• Travel to customer sites and conferences up to 50% of the time.

Skills

Experience owning outcomes and decision making

Solving ambiguous problems

Influencing stakeholders

Domain expertise in cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Principal Architect, Banking and Financial Services, Google Cloud

Google Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; India

Remote eligible

Advanced

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

Note: Google\'s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Remote location(s): India.

• Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or in a customer-facing role.
• Experience with cloud market and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
• Experience with enterprise architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
• Experience supporting the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance industries.
• Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation process, with knowledge of computing solutions.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products.
• Ability to influence the audience and identify growth engagements within accounts.

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 Principal Architect, you will lead cross-functional teams to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies. In this role, you will lead conversation and direct the execution of the Sales team by combining technical direction and business insight. You will partner with the Value Engineering team to articulate the value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization\’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google\’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP Engineering, CTO and CIO, and identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
• Provide domain knowledge around public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure to implement a complete solution while providing best practices to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
• Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, technical teams, and more.
• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events up to 50% of the time as needed.

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