Google

Solutions Architect III, Platform, Retail, Google Cloud

Google$194K — $198K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years in cloud native architecture, customer-facing or support roles
  • Experience presenting to technical stakeholders or executive leaders
  • Proficiency in programming, debugging, and systems design
  • Hands-on knowledge of cloud development, virtualization, or containerization
  • Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own the technical account plan for targeted sales in retail
  • Leverage sales and programming skills to showcase Google Cloud's value
  • Create cross-pillar solutions and drive technical wins for customers
  • Facilitate post-sales activities and support implementation transitions
  • Understand and translate merchant needs into scalable architectures

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Flexibility in work arrangements
  • Participation in a robust equity program
Full Job Description
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
  • Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
  • Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops.
  • Experience with cloud development, on-premise development, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers.
  • Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
  • Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, penetration testing).
  • Experience selling technical solutions in one or more of the following: infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, cloud AI, networking, migrations, security, specifically within the retail or e-commerce sectors.
  • Experience driving sales cycle for high-growth tech companies (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
  • Understanding of the Canadian tech ecosystem and driving impact within a high-flyer industry leader.


About the job

In this role, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate our services to customers. As a trusted advisor, you will lead technical conversations to understand their business issues. You will troubleshoot roadblocks, engage in proofs-of-concept, and design cross-pillar cloud solutions to solve these challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. Using your strategic and presentation skills, you will engage with leaders to persuasively present solutions on Google Cloud.

You will focus on winning new business workloads and driving penetration in existing ones. Your expertise will span infrastructure modernization, application modernization, and data analytics. By blending sales expertise and technical engagement, you will prove the value of Google Cloud for global merchants and the retail ecosystem.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $194000 - $198000 (CAD) 42.86% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions for retail environments.
  • Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops focused on high-traffic retail scalability.
  • Develop cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers; continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
  • Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
  • Demonstrate high client empathy by translating merchant business needs into robust, scalable technical architectures.

About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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