Solution Architect Manager II, Retail, Google Cloud

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

### **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 in leadership (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).
• Experience in cloud computing (or development), on-premise infrastructure, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Experience leading technical conversations, demos, prototyping, or workshops with customers.
• Experience in, or supporting, the retail industry.

### **Preferred qualifications:**

• Experience with software lifecycles, building tools, and architecting/developing software for scalable, distributed systems (e.g., data platform, AI/ML, infrastructure).
• Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales developing team.
• Experience managing a team through pre-sales processes and career development (e.g., account mapping, quota setting, performance management, managing sensitive information).
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders/executive leaders (e.g., delivering compelling messages by audience, asking questions, leading conversations that drive accelerated value realization and business opportunity).
• Experience managing delivery and consumption plans for cross-pillar cloud solutions.

**About the job**

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When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

In this role, you will lead and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working with customers to provide technical and solutions advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical blockers. You will foster a culture of technical ownership and understand the mechanics of development, delivery, and consumption across the Google Cloud portfolio.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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.

The Canada base salary range for this full-time position is CAD 194,000-199,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in Canada role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

**Responsibilities**

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• Lead a team of Technical Sales Specialists, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate value realization.
• Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, cross-pillar solutions, and expansion opportunities to drive technical wins.
• Partner with sales to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, with a focus on winning new workloads and driving consumption within existing workloads. Through planning stages, determine alignment, coverage, and staffing needs.
• Balance technical leadership with operational excellence; lead workload and opportunity review meetings and provide insight into how to achieve a technical agreement and migration strategy, working directly with customers, partners, and prospects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with partners and internal teams to resolve technical roadblocks.

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