Principal Architect, Payments, Google Cloud

**Minimum qualifications**:

- 10 years of experience in industry solutions proposition or in a customer-facing role.
- 7 years of experience in digital transformation processes.
- 5 years of experience working with accounts and delivering presentations to C-level executives.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience with design processes and building solutions with different methodologies (i.e., design thinking).- Experience with enterprise technology buying and evaluation processes including computing solutions.- Ability to engage/influence audiences and identify expansion engagements.
- Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate industry solutions.
- Ability to learn and work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
- Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve organizational goals.

**About the job**:
As a member of the Google Cloud team, you inspire leading companies, schools, and government agencies to work smarter with Google tools like Google Workspace, Search, and Chrome. You advocate the innovative power of our products to make organizations more productive, collaborative, and mobile. Your guiding light is doing what’s right for the customer, you will meet customers exactly where they are at and provide them the best solutions for innovation. Using your passion for Google products, you help spread the magic of Google to organizations around the world.
- As a Principal Architect, you will lead cross-functional teams of experts to help customers implement cloud strategies. You will facilitate the conversation and direct the execution of the Business Development team with business insights. You will partner with Value Engineering to articulate the 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**:

- Drive customer engagements by identifying strategic drivers, understanding their business issues and opportunities, mapping sponsors, and establishing structured engagement.
- Leverage the ecosystem while bringing Google solutions and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners to scale the business and differentiate in value propositions.
- Participate in key industry events in different countries to create awareness and opportunities.
- Enable Business teams and partners with industry trends, solutions, references, and customer approaches to scale the business.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events up to 50% of the time, as needed.

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