Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in customer-facing services focused on translating enterprise customer needs into cloud solutions.
• Experience in developing solution architectures through system design techniques (distributed systems, designing a system under certain constraints, simplicity, limitations, robustness and tradeoffs).
• Ability to communicate in French and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience of engaging product organization and influencing others to work on product features to drive the overall product strategy and roadmap.
• Experience in leading various teams including engineers, architects, and technical consultants on cloud migration engagements.
• Experience creating solution architecture for various industry services workloads and considering the operational needs of an organization.
• Experience creating technology strategy, capability roadmaps, and implementation approaches for migration programs.
• Understanding of modern application migration and modernization approaches.
• Excellent organizational, investigative and influencing skills.

About the job

As an Enterprise Architect, you will work with customers in helping transform their businesses through the innovative use of Google Cloud Platform. You will work cross-functionally, providing pre-sales enterprise architecture support, solutions delivery and migration, and engineering expertise for Google's customers. As part of the professional services team, you will work on customer Request for Proposals (RFP) and proposal processes, partnering with Sales and Customer Engineering counterparts to deliver technical architecture and services strategy. You will help inform the scope of services staffing and timelines.

You will advise customers on architecture best practices and architectural blueprints as the foundation for migration to Google Cloud. You are part of a team that will propose, develop, and implement new approaches as well as strive for execution consistency, and repeatability for these engagements. You will represent and deliver best practices across the areas of infrastructure/application/data modernization and more. You will collaborate cross-functionally within Google, as well as support the services partner community.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive the cloud design and technical delivery across infrastructure, network, operations, application migrations by providing technical direction and design thought leadership, thereby ensuring technical outcomes for workload migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) considering the technical and delivery constraints.
• Engage with Chief Architects and act as an executive technical advisor to build confidence and organize overall IT strategy aligned to the broader business needs.
• Influence tactical and decision making for a technology transformation journey.
• Drive industry centric accelerators/assets/pov to create broader impact across the industry in a specific domain or a technology area.
• Provide recommendations on the customer's cloud architecture and ensure the most optimal, resilient, secure and cost efficient design along with adhering to Google's best practices guidelines.