Customer Solutions Architect, Platform, Retail, Google Cloud
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 8, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
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 developed 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 Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to the customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs of concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve business challenges. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your strategic acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.
You will identify, pursue, and win new business workloads and drive penetration within existing ones. You will have technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.
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
- Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participate in planning and supporting targeted sales motions.
- Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops.
- Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers, continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase.
- Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transition the final delivery plan to implementation teams.
- Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, provide support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience with cloud engineering, on-premise engineering, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
- Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience selling technical solutions across infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data management, data analytics, intelligent systems, networking, migrations, or security.
- Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms.
- Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, penetration testing).
- Experience driving the entire business cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution).
- Experience working with, the startup ecosystem, and with prospecting, building and maintaining new customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories.
- Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover workloads with customers.