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The Senior FDE is a customer-facing solution architect who can code: they own the technical success of the customer engagement, make architecture and deployment decisions, lead customer workshops, review implementation, drive production readiness, and mentor FDEs.\nCustomer-facing solution architect who can code\nOwns technical success of the customer engagement\nMakes architecture and production decisions\nLeads FDEs and influences the platform roadmap\nTypical time allocation\n~50% architecture and technical leadership\n~30% customer leadership\n~20% engineering oversight and mentoring\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the overall technical delivery of enterprise Agentic AI deployments from discovery and architecture through production rollout, hypercare, and transition to BAU.\nLead customer discovery, technical workshops, architecture reviews, executive technical discussions, solution demonstrations, POCs, pilots, and production planning.\nDesign customer-specific AI and cloud architectures using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, ADK, Google Cloud services, enterprise data sources, applications, security controls, and operational services.\nDefine agent architecture including multi-agent patterns, Planner/Critic/Supervisor/Orchestrator designs, domain agents, Skills, tools, RAG, human-in-the-loop controls, state, and enterprise integrations.\nDefine the integration architecture for REST APIs, MCP tools, databases, ITSM platforms, monitoring systems, identity systems, messaging systems, and proprietary applications.\nDecide which requirements should be implemented through configuration, customer-specific extensions, or reusable platform capabilities; drive the appropriate engineering path.\nDefine production deployment architecture across Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, IAM, Secret Manager, networking, and other appropriate Google Cloud services.\nDefine production architecture requirements for availability, scalability, security, resiliency, observability, release management, rollback, disaster recovery, and operational support.\nLead security and identity architecture discussions covering IAM, RBAC, service accounts, authentication, authorization, secrets management, data protection, auditability, and network controls.\nDefine and review production readiness criteria covering functionality, security, performance, reliability, evaluation, observability, governance, supportability, and operational readiness.\nDefine the customer AgentOps strategy including telemetry, tracing, logging, metrics, evaluation, quality monitoring, cost monitoring, and operational dashboards.\nLead complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for production issues involving agents, models, RAG, tools, integrations, networking, authentication, and cloud infrastructure.\nDrive reliability, latency, scalability, model performance, and AI cost optimization across customer deployments.\nDefine and review CI/CD, release management, environment promotion, versioning, rollback, and deployment processes.\nReview architecture, integration code, deployment plans, and technical deliverables produced by FDEs; establish engineering quality standards.\nMentor and technically guide FDEs and Associate FDEs working on customer deployments.\nEstablish reusable deployment patterns, integration patterns, reference architectures, runbooks, onboarding standards, and troubleshooting playbooks.\nIdentify recurring customer requirements and drive their conversion into reusable agents, Skills, tools, connectors, frameworks, and platform capabilities with Agent Development / Platform Engineering teams.\nAct as the senior technical escalation point for complex customer issues and major production incidents.\nProvide technical feedback to Product, Agent Development, Platform Engineering, Security, Cloud Architecture, and Operations teams and influence platform roadmap priorities.\nLead technical handover, customer enablement, operational readiness, and transition to support/BAU teams.\nSkill Requirements\nMust Have Skills\nStrong Python and software engineering skills with the ability to review and guide production code.\nExtensive hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, tool calling, evaluation, and multi-agent architectures.\nStrong hands-on experience with ADK and/or LangGraph/LangChain in production.\nStrong Google Cloud architecture and engineering experience with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform / Google Cloud AI services.\nStrong enterprise integration experience across REST APIs, databases, ITSM platforms, monitoring systems, identity platforms, and customer-specific applications.\nStrong understanding of IAM, OAuth, service accounts, RBAC, secrets management, authentication, authorization, security, and enterprise networking.\nStrong experience with containerized applications, Docker, Cloud Run, GKE, and production deployment patterns.\nStrong experience with CI/CD, Git, release management, versioning, and production operations.\nStrong experience with observability, tracing, logging, monitoring, debugging, evaluation, and production incident management.\nStrong understanding of RAG architecture, knowledge integration, retrieval, evaluation, and agent quality measurement.\nExperience with Responsible AI, guardrails, AI security, data protection, and enterprise governance.\nStrong customer-facing communication skills and ability to lead architecture conversations with senior technical stakeholders.\nPreferred Skills\nDeep experience with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform capabilities including ADK, Agent Runtime, Agent Gateway, Model Armor, Agent Evaluation, and Cloud Observability.\nExperience with OpenTelemetry and enterprise AgentOps practices.\nExperience with MCP, A2A, and enterprise agent interoperability.\nExperience with Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code and enterprise cloud landing zones.\nStrong experience with GKE, Cloud Run, 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