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Principal Architect, Higher Education, Google Public Sector (Mountain View)

Google Inc.

Victorville, CA • On-site

Full-time

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Principal Architect, Higher Education, Google Public Sector

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Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information. Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role.
  • Experience with higher education markets in the state of California.
  • Experience in cloud market insights and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.
  • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications
  • Experience designing, building and working with generative and agentic AI solutions.
  • Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices in hybrid cloud deployments and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
  • Experience in building, architecting, and designing/implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.
  • Knowledge of technology solutions with the ability to learn and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
About the job

As part of the Customer Engineering organization in Google Public Sector, you will work with cross‑functional teams of experts to help customers design, plan, implement, and govern cloud strategies in the public sector space. The Google Public Sector Principal Architect role is a hybrid technical and business advisor role. In this role, you will exhibit executive level qualities, lead the conversation, and direct the execution of the Sales team by combining both technical direction and business insight. You will partner with Value Engineering to articulate the true total value of each technical solution and the overall business partnership with Google Public Sector.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

  • Build a trusted advisory relationship with education accounts and engage with Architects, Vice Presidents, Chief Technical Officers and Chief Information Officers to identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver value and resolve blockers.
  • Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Google Cloud with public sector customers, at conferences, and online.
  • Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution while providing best practices to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
  • Manage the enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, technical teams, and more.
  • Onsite client‑facing work at least 3 days a week with Stanford University.

US: $152,000 – $222,000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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