Senior Technical Program Manager II, Enterprise Architect

Google; United States; Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 333,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager II, Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise-wide architecture efforts across Austin, NY, and San Jose. You will drive standards, patterns, and governance while balancing engineering velocity and business goals.

You will co-author modern blueprints, lead an enterprise architecture board, and influence senior stakeholders to align technical directions with strategic outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience owning outcomes and decision making with stakeholders.
• Proven track record in cross-functional architectural initiatives and governance.

Responsibilities

• Drive definition and adoption of the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit and guidelines.
• Own and lead the Enterprise Architecture Board across corporate engineering.
• Ensure architectural choices align with business outcomes and strategic goals.
• Collaborate with Pillar Leads on asset rationalization and decommissioning legacy assets.
• Translate complex capabilities for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder management

Technical storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Enterprise Architecture Toolkit

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager II, Enterprise Architect

Google – Austin, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.

Advanced

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in program management.
• 8 years of experience leading cross-functional architectural initiatives, managing technical communities, or driving alignment across multiple business pillars.
• Experience designing and establishing an Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (standards, design patterns, approved technologies) to balance governance with developer velocity and engineering freedom.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience shifting between technical problem-solving with engineering teams and high-level strategy mapping with executive leadership.
• Experience co-authoring modern technical blueprints and developing long-term architectural strategies across a portfolio of internal systems within a complex, large-scale global organization.
• Proven experience leading or chairing an Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB) or similar enterprise-wide architectural governance program.
• Demonstrated history of influencing without authority, utilizing exceptional stakeholder management, active listening, and technical storytelling to align c-level technical leaders toward shared standards.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

In this role, you will join the Enterprise Product Strategy and Architecture team within Corporate Engineering. You will define and drive enterprise-wide architectural standards, alignment, scalability, and efficiency to ensure our global corporate infrastructure remains innovative, flexible, and strictly mapped to overall business strategy. First, you will serve as the dedicated Enterprise Product Architecture strategist and liaison for one or more core business Pillars, working in close, day-to-day partnership with their technical and architectural leaders to co-author modern technical blueprints and actively reduce portfolio redundancy. Because you will collaborate across various organizational boundaries, your success will hinge on your exceptional ability to influence without authority, using outstanding stakeholder management and storytelling skills to align different technical leaders toward shared standards and a unified architectural goal.

At Corp Eng, we build world-leading business solutions that scale a more helpful Google for everyone. As Google’s IT organization, we provide end-to-end solutions for organizations across Google. We deliver the right tools, platforms, and experiences for all Googlers as they create more helpful products and services for everyone. In the simplest terms, we are Google for Googlers.

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

US: $240,000 - $333,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive the definition, establishment, and adoption of the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (including standards, design patterns, approved technologies, and architectural guidelines).
• Own and lead the Enterprise Architecture Board for Corporate Engineering. Drive engagement and architectural alignment across all pillars, building a highly collaborative cross-functional technical community.
• Ensure all architectural recommendations, standards, and technical choices are rooted in the business outcomes, operational efficiencies, and strategic advantages they deliver. Define and track the measurement of Enterprise Architecture’s value addition.
• Collaborate with Pillar Leads to execute asset rationalization strategies, identifying redundant systems, mapping dependencies, and planning the decommissioning of legacy assets. Mitigate technical debt and fragmentation, ensuring security risks are addressed proactively.
• Act as a trusted consultant for transformation initiatives, product directors, and strategic corporate integrations, translating complex capabilities for both technical and non-technical audiences.

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