Senior Customer Engineer, Platform, FSI, Google Cloud

Overview

In this role you partner with technical sales to differentiate Google Cloud and act as the primary technical advisor for customers. You design cross-pillar cloud solutions, run proofs of concept and workshops, and help translate project plans into delivery. You drive technical wins, guide early delivery and migration plans, and support post-sale handoffs to implementation teams. You engage with technical and business leaders to articulate practical cloud solutions that meet customer needs and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy to support sales motions
• Architect cross-pillar cloud solutions and drive technical wins through demos, pilots, and workshops
• Define initial delivery plans and lead technical engagement through solution phases
• Support pricing activities and hand off final delivery plans to delivery teams
• Monitor progress against delivery plans and assist cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role
• Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms
• Experience presenting to technical stakeholders or executive leaders
• Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops

• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Stakeholder management and collaboration
• Problem-solving and adaptable to complex customer environments
• Cloud native architecture
• Cloud engineering and virtualization
• Containerization platforms

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