Platform Solution Architect III, Google Cloud

Role overview

Minimum qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience driving the business cycle, including defining delivery and consumption plans and transitioning them for execution.
• Experience selling Cloud AI technical solutions and building long-term strategies to uncover customer workloads.
• Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
• Experience with security concepts such as encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, and penetration testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own technical account plans and strategies; participate in planning and support targeted sales motions.
• Prove Google Cloud value through complex demos, pilots, and in-depth workshops.
• Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans; lead technical engagement in the solution phase.
• Support pricing activities and transition final delivery plans to implementation teams.
• Monitor delivery-plan progress and support teams during ramp, delivery, migration, or implementation.
• Identify and pursue new workloads and drive penetration within existing customer workloads.

Compensation

• Canada pay is CAD 194,000–198,000, plus a 42.86% bonus target, equity, and benefits; compensation cadence is not stated.