Principal Architect, Financial Services, Google Cloud Ireland

Principal Architect, Financial Services, Google Cloud, UK, Ireland

Google London, UK

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• 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 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 (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it 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 (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, pen testing).

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 using technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

In this role, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to the customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business issues. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs-of-concepts, demos, use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business issues.

You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.

You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads and driving pen testing within existing ones as a technical generalist, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend sales prowess, financial services industry knowledge and exceptional technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

• 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.

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