Senior Principal Architect, National Security
Listed on 2026-08-05
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Senior Principal Architect, National Security
Advanced experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note:
By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Reston, VA, USA;
Washington D.C., DC, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role.
- Experience in cloud market insights and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.
- Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
- Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in designing, developing, and deploying solutions that leverage or integrate generative AI.
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying solutions to air-gapped, internet-disconnected environments.
- Experience with networking concepts such as software-defined networking, routing, virtual private networks, load balancers and firewalls.
- Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building Greenfield territories in government accounts.
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 use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
As part of the Customer Engineering organization in Google Cloud, Principal Architects lead cross-functional teams of experts to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies. As a Principal Architect in the Federal public sector space, you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business issues, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks.
Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $192000 - $267000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits
ResponsibilitiesWork with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand key customer technical objections, and develop…
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