Platform Customer Engineer IV, Banking, Google Cloud

Minimum 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 translating customer objectives into Cloud solutions (e.g., IaaS, SaaS) across multiple domains.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
  
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in one or more of the following areas: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, Cloud AI, security, networking, migrations, or SAP.
• Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
• Experience in migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
• Experience in defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution.
• Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing.
• Experience driving the entire business cycle.

About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will act as the customer's primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business issues. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and 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 strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication, and organizational skills.

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

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $186,000-$261,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting specific business 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, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.