Certified Google Professional Cloud Architect

Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect Google Cloud Platform. CST time zone candidates is preferred, but EST is fine as well.

Required Travel - Up to 25% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Pathway to Success

Your super-power will be in helping customers understand specifically how Google Cloud technology can fundamentally solve their technical challenges and enable their future success. You will inspire cross-functional leadership from our engineering teams. You will be trusted to guide large enterprise engagements and given the freedom to build new solutions that meet customer needs.

You will establish yourself as a renowned specialist within SADA, earning a reputation with customers and with the Google Cloud sales and professional services teams for your wide-ranging domain knowledge. Other engineers and architects will routinely defer to your expertise when it comes to the delivery of project architectures. In your role, you'll manage client-oriented technical conversations. Collaborating with client architects and technology heads, you will take on the design of expansive and extended client initiatives.

Success will be measured by Client satisfaction, deals won, and your contributions to the team s goals.

Expectations

Customer Facing - This is a customer-facing role. You will interact with customers on a daily basis. You will participate in calls and customer meetings to qualify for consultative engagements with engineering and business teams. You will present solutions, architectures, SOWs, demos, and other technical materials to build trust and confidence in SADA s ability to take the customer through their cloud adoption.

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments, compliance training, and meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.

Job Description

Required Credentials:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or 10 years of relevant work experience in software development.

Google Professional Cloud Architect Certified or able to complete one of the above within the first 90 days of employment.

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development and architecture, preferably in cloud-based environments.

Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable and reliable enterprise software solutions and running them in production.

Expertise in development with one or more of the following languages: Java/Kotlin, SpringBoot, Camunda, Python, Rust, Golang, or Node.js.

Prior experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, developer-friendly REST APIs.

Exposure to full stack development, from setting up application and database server infrastructure to developing and implementing application code.

Experience guiding complex, long-term customer engagements. Common examples would be migration from one cloud to another and refactoring cloud SDKs, breaking down monolithic applications into microservices, or large-scale net-new applications on the cloud.

Experience providing leadership, oversight, and direction of software development projects, ideally as a VP of Engineering or CTO in a high-growth organization. Experience strategizing, designing, architecting, and directing the deployment of scalable software, with a focus on cloud-based solutions.

Experience guiding technical design sessions, architecting and documenting technical solutions aligned with client business goals, and identifying gaps between the client's current and desired end states.

Ability to evaluate and select appropriate technologies and frameworks to meet specific project requirements and assess risks and trade-offs.

Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, high-performance, and secure software architectures.

Ability to architect, scope, and prioritize work based on feedback from the customer or internal teams.

Highly capable when working with customers in a consultative capacity, including convincing them to utilize more optimal technologies and processes.

Advanced knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.

Experience writing automated tests, including unit, integration, end-to-end, and acceptance tests.

Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.

Experience tuning applications for non-functional requirements, such as: usability, maintainability, scalability, availability, security, and portability.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Time management with the ability to manage multiple streams.

Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends, and best practices in software architecture and cloud computing.

Ability to adapt quickly to changing business requirements and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Useful Qualifications:

Experience delivering real-time applications using streaming protocols, such as WebSockets, WebRTC, and Sockets.

Experience using Google Cloud Platform, in particular serverless (Cloud Functions), containers (Cloud Run, Kubernetes), and platforms (App Engine).

Experience using cloud offerings and solutions (Microsoft Azure, or Amazon AWS).

Exposure to the Google Maps API, PostGIS, GDAL, or other Geospatial display and analytics APIs/frameworks.

Experience with API management solutions such as Apigee or Mulesoft.

Experience with leveraging Generative AI in applications.

Experience with GenAI.