Principal Architect, Media and Entertainment

**Gurgaon, Haryana, India; Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India**.
**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 either a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role focusing on Retail/E-commerce.
- Experience in cloud computing, including cloud market and competitive dynamics.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments/roadmaps.
- Experience in the enterprise technology buying and evaluation process. Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
- Understanding of large-scale computing solutions.
- Ability to work cross-functionally, engage/influence audiences, and identify expansion engagements.

**About the job**:
As part of the Customer Engineering organization in Google Cloud, you will lead cross-functional teams of experts to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise cloud strategies. As a Principal Architect, you will facilitate the conversation and direct the execution of the Sales team by combining strategy and business insight. You will partner with Value Engineering in order to articulate the true total value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP Engineering, and executive-level stakeholders, and identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences, and online.
- Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

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