Principal Architect, Gaming, Google Cloud

As a Principal Architect, you will facilitate the conversation and direct the execution of the business team by combining both technical vision and business insight. You will partner with Value Engineering in order to articulate the true total value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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

• Engage early with individuals in a trusted advisory capacity, leveraging industry expertise and technology vision, to influence their approach of solving business and technology challenges.
• Introduce solutions based on bespoke or existing global solutions, own and architect these propositions leading to opportunities for Google Cloud while working collaboratively with customer engineers, delivery, product management, and specialist teams.
• Own the technical account plan for prioritized and strategic accounts, and develop a technology roadmap with Google Cloud through recommendations on enterprise architecture, integration, application infrastructure, analytics, etc.
• Promote Google Cloud at conferences, events, and digital media.
• Provide the account team and sales leadership with direction and guidance on account strategy and opportunity qualification.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect in either a gaming, cloud computing company, or in a customer-facing role.
• Experience in gaming, cloud computing, and cloud market.
• Experience promoting solutions to businesses., * Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments/roadmaps.
• Experience in enterprise technology buying, evaluation process, building, architecting, designing and implementing global cloud-based systems.
• Experience in network infrastructure, security, and application development.
• Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
• Understanding of computing solutions.
• Ability to deliver results, work cross-functionally, engage/influence audiences, and identify growth opportunities.