About the role
Google is seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect II to join our Google Cloud team in Toronto, Canada. This pivotal role focuses on empowering leading companies, educational institutions, and government agencies to harness the transformative power of cloud computing. As a trusted technical partner, you will engage directly with customers, understanding their unique business needs and delivering tailored Google Cloud solutions that enhance productivity, mobility, and collaboration. Your expertise will be instrumental in demonstrating the immense value of Google Cloud Platform across a diverse portfolio, ensuring our customers achieve their strategic objectives.
Details
In this capacity, you will develop and own the comprehensive technical account plan and strategy, playing a crucial part in supporting targeted business motions. Leveraging a robust blend of business acumen, programming skills, and solutions architecture experience, you will prove the tangible value of Google Cloud Platform through compelling demos, pilots, and in-depth workshops. A core aspect of this role involves developing innovative cross-pillar cloud solutions, driving significant technical wins, and meticulously defining initial delivery plans for customers. Your leadership will continue throughout the solution phase, ensuring a seamless and successful technical engagement from inception to post-sales transition, where you will facilitate pricing activities and hand over the final delivery plan to implementation teams. Maintaining awareness of progress against the delivery plan is key, as you provide essential support to cross-functional teams during ramp-up, delivery, migration, or implementation phases, ensuring optimal customer experience.
This role demands a proactive approach to partnering with technical business teams to truly differentiate Google Cloud for our valued customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in deep technical-led conversations to uncover their specific business issues. This involves adeptly troubleshooting technical questions and roadblocks, leading proofs-of-concept, and conducting impactful demos. Your ability to develop sophisticated cross-pillar cloud solutions will directly address these business challenges, driving the technical win and meticulously defining comprehensive delivery and consumption plans. With strong presentation skills, you will engage effectively with technical and business leaders, persuasively presenting practical and useful solutions built on Google Cloud. A key focus will be identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads while also driving deeper penetration within existing ones. This requires a broad technical expertise spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, and data analytics. Ultimately, you will blend your business experience, market knowledge, and direct technical engagement to consistently prove the unparalleled value of the Google Cloud portfolio to our customers.