Data Consultant

About the Job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through their cloud journey, helping businesses thrive. As a Data Consultant, you will work on critical projects to help customers transform their businesses. This role involves providing management, consulting, and technical capabilities to customer engagements, working with executives and technical leaders to deploy solutions via Google Cloud Platform. You will also collaborate with key partners, managing programs, delivering consulting services, and offering technical guidance and best practice expertise.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations' digital transformation by delivering enterprise-grade solutions leveraging Google's cutting-edge technology. Customers globally turn to Google Cloud as a trusted partner for growth and solving critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful implementations of cloud solutions, becoming a trusted advisor throughout the engagement.
• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud-based distributed virtualized infrastructure solutions according to complex customer requirements and implementation best practices.
• Collaborate with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
• Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
• Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
• Experience architecting, developing, or maintaining technical solutions in virtualized environments.
• Experience in systems design and architecting or explaining systems interactions, including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience reading software code in one or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, and Python).
• Experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed data processing systems with one or more technologies (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Vertica, Netezza, Teradata, Tableau, or MicroStrategy).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Solutions
• Data Architecture
• Project Management
• Technical Consulting
• Google Cloud Platform
• Systems Design
• API Integration
• Distributed Systems
• Client Engagement
• Problem-solving