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Google · 6 hours ago

Resident Architect, Google Public Sector

Reston, VA, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$147K/yr - $216K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is a leader in technology and innovation, and they are seeking a Resident Architect for their Public Sector team. In this role, you will lead customer engagements, architect solutions, and drive the adoption of cloud technologies for public sector clients, ensuring successful implementation and addressing unique government challenges.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

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

Qualification

Cloud solutions architectureGoogle Cloud PlatformObject-oriented programmingTechnical project managementStakeholder managementCloud computing conceptsNetwork protocolsSecurity best practicesCloud IdentityAccess ManagementDistributed systemsScalability

Required

Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information

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

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

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

Glassdoor4.4

Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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