Principal Architect, Google Cloud (Japanese, English)

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 15 years of experience serving in the capacity of a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience in a customer facing role.
  
• Experience managing technical projects within the infrastructure and cloud domains.
  
• Ability to communicate in Japanese and English fluently.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.
  
• Experience with distributed training and optimizing performance versus costs.
  
• Experience in the enterprise technology buying/evaluation process paired with an understanding of large-scale computing solutions.
  
• Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally. Ability to engage/influence audiences and identify expansion engagements.
  

About the job

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 engineered 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 a Principal Architect, you will work with Technical Sales teams as a technical expert to differentiate Google Cloud to customers. In this role, you will help prospective customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, explaining technical features, helping customers design architectures, and problem-solving any potential roadblocks.

This is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in Japanese and English with local stakeholders.

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.

This is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in Japanese and English with local stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build an advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, Vice President of Development, Chief Technology Officers, and Chief Information Officers.
• Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology in the industry, and effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud.
• Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.