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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 15 years of experience as an enterprise architect in a cloud computing environment or a customer-facing role.

• Experience in cloud computing, cloud market, and dynamics.

• Ability to communicate in Mandarin fluently. This is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in Mandarin with local stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments/roadmaps.

• Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation processes.

• Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems, including network infrastructure, security, and application development.

• Understanding of large-scale computing solutions.

• Ability to deliver results, work cross-functionally, engage/influence audiences, and identify expansion engagements.

• Ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

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 developed 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 align to the industry Sales team developing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) architectural solutions for strategic accounts. You will lead the conversation and direct the execution of the Business team. You will partner with Value Engineering to articulate the value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.

From startups building their first app to billion-user consumer companies crunching big data, the Google Cloud Platform gives developers and businesses the most advanced data and analytics solution on the market, along with Google's secure, high performance infrastructure. Our team of technical account managers and software engineers work with partners across all functions to develop solutions that harness Google's planet-wide platform to solve the world's most challenging problems.

• Build a relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects and C-level stakeholders.

• Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.

• Make recommendations to implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.

• Manage the enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.

• Identify customer priorities and technical objections, and design strategies to deliver business value and resolve blockers.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.