Principal Architect, Financial Services, Google Cloud, UK, Ireland
Location: London, UK
Experience and Expertise
Advanced experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems, and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.
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 cloud engineering, on premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
- Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
- Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
- Experience addressing customers from the financial services vertical.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, security.
- Experience driving the entire business cycle, including defining delivery and consumption plans and transitioning them for execution.
- Experience building long term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
- Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
- Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participate in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
- Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in depth workshops.
- Architect cross pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
- Facilitate the post sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
- Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, provide support to cross functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.
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. As part of an entrepreneurial team, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud, serve as the customer's primary technical partner, troubleshoot technical roadblocks, lead proofs of concepts, demos, and engineer cross pillar cloud solutions that solve business challenges.
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