Applied Solutions Architect, Google Cloud

About the job

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.

As an Applied Solutions Architect within the Google Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM) team, you will act as the deep technical bridge between customers' business challenges and Google’s engineering capabilities. You will work closely with customers to uncover their needs, architect scalable systems, and write code and build real-world applications.

You will not be building in a vacuum. Your core objective is to engineer Proof-of-Value (PoV) products designed to integrate seamlessly into a customer’s existing, "as-is" systems. You will keep the final production end-state in mind from day one, advocate for AI and cloud-native solutions to not only look great on a whiteboard but function flawlessly in their actual enterprise environment.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead deep-dive technical discovery sessions to understand customer requirements and their current technology landscape, designing comprehensive system architectures and run iterative workshops with stakeholders to lock in project scope, always architecting with the final end-state in mind.
• Move seamlessly from high-level architecture to low-level implementation, actively coding, building, and deploy cloud systems, ensuring technical designs translate into functional, integrated realities.
• Architect and engineer enterprise-grade AI solutions such as agentic workflows, Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and applied foundation models, backed by highly scalable, cloud-native infrastructure including event-driven microservices, containerized workloads, and serverless compute.
• Engineer functional PoV products that integrate into the customer's as-is systems to demonstrate true business value, ensuring all builds adhere strictly to engineering best practices, security standards, and scalability guidelines to ensure a smooth transition to production.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms.
• Experience building full-stack solutions that interface with enterprise systems.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in software development, systems architecture, or a highly technical customer-facing role with proficiency in one of more general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
• Experience managing the technical pre-sales cycle, from initial scoping and architecture design to the successful delivery of integrated PoVs.
• Deep experience with cloud-native application development.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building AI applications.