Resident Architect, Google Public Sector

About The Job

Google Public Sector delivers Google Cloud and AI capabilities to United States public sector agencies. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s technology to help governments operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. We build AI and scalable cloud capabilities that allow the United States to serve the American people with the same technology that the leading companies in the world use. Our Technical Delivery team are the keyboard engineers that make this happen, in partnership with our go to market colleagues, partners and our customers.

As a Resident Architect, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead customer engagements from start to finish. You will work with stakeholders to plan requirements, architect the end-to-end solution, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate with cross-functional partners across the company. You are equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

You will work with public sector clients you will drive the adoption and successful implementation of cloud technologies for public sector clients. You will act as a trusted advisor to public sector clients such as federal and state government agencies including the department of defense and intelligence community. You will understand cloud architecture principles, design patterns, networking, and security best practices, along with experience addressing the unique requirements and challenges of the U.S. Government.

This role requires up to 30% travel.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience advising enterprise, or government customers in cloud solutions architecture, technical project management, stakeholder management, professional services, or technical consulting.
• 3 years of experience with object-oriented programming languages (e.g., C++ or Python).
• Ability to obtain a US Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Networking, and Kubernetes Engine.
• Experience supporting at-scale deployments, migrations, modernizations, or transformations to public Cloud providers.
• Experience designing and promoting cloud computing architectures to complex government organizations.
• Understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) models, as well as familiarity with distributed systems and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic engagement, technical architecture, and program management of multi-functional Google Cloud Professional Services projects with strategic customers.
• Provide architectural excellence, embedded within a client's technical team to ensure project success from concept to completion.
• Engage Google Cloud engineering resources to manage risks, issues, and actions for customers, and track them regularly to meet the expected outcomes and timelines.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution.
• Collaborate with key/executive stakeholders to design clear comprehensive product goals and strategic roadmaps.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Architecture
• Public Sector Consulting
• Technical Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Google Cloud Platform
• Security Clearance (TS/SCI)
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Distributed Systems
• Enterprise Solutions
• Network Security