Cloud Consultant, Big Data

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 7 years of experience in technical client service.

• 3 years of experience in project management and delivering technical solutions.

• Experience with architecting, developing, and/or maintaining technical solutions in virtualized environments.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• Cloud certification.

• Experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed data processing systems with one or more technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Vertica, Netezza, Teradata, Tableau, or MicroStrategy.

• Experience in systems design, with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and methods available.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Cloud Consultant, you will work directly with Google’s strategic customers on critical projects to help them transform their businesses. You will provide management, consulting, and technical aptitude to customer engagements while working with client executives and technical leaders to deploy solutions via Google Cloud Platform. You will work with Google partners to manage programs, deliver consulting services, and provide technical guidance and best practice expertise.

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

• Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful implementations of Google Cloud solutions, becoming a trusted advisor to selection makers throughout the engagement.
• Work with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
• Interact with business, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
• Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud based big data and analytics solutions, according to complex customer requirements and implementation best practices.
• Advocate for customer needs in order to overcome adoption blockers and drive new feature development based on your field experience.

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