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Principal Architect - Financial Services

6w

Google

London, GB · Full-time · £140,000 – £200,000

About this role

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business with technology built in the cloud. Products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications. Teams assist developers, businesses, institutions and agencies to realize technology benefits.

In this role, partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to customers. Serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand business challenges. Troubleshoot technical questions, roadblocks, and engage in proofs-of-concepts and demos.

Use expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve business challenges. Drive the technical win, define delivery and consumption plans. Employ strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage technical and business leaders with practical Google Cloud solutions.

Focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads while driving penetration in existing ones as a technical generalist. Span infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. Blend sales prowess, financial services industry knowledge and technical engagement to prove Google Cloud portfolio value.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ digital transformation with enterprise-grade solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology. Tools help developers build sustainably. Customers in over 200 countries turn to Google Cloud to enable growth and solve critical business problems.

Requirements

  • 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
  • Experience selling technical solutions in infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, or security
  • Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy
  • Partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud
  • Serve as customer’s primary technical partner and advisor
  • Engage in technical-led conversations to understand business challenges
  • Troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks
  • Conduct proofs-of-concepts, demos, and customer workshops
  • Architect cross-pillar cloud solutions to solve business challenges
  • Drive technical win, define delivery and consumption plans