Enterprise Architect, Professional Services, Google Cloud

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will act as a trusted domain expert bridging complex commercial direction with production-grade technical implementations. You will lead strategic relationships with executive stakeholders, advising them on how to optimize their use of cloud technology to support overarching business processes. Operating at the intersection of business strategy and software engineering, you will own the technical execution of partnerships, translate enterprise needs into architectures, and guide teams through complex digital transformations.

In this role, you will lead discovery workshops, construct business capability maps, and define long-term technical road maps. You will apply core software engineering and system design principles to modernize existing applications and architect novel, cloud-native solutions incorporating advanced artificial intelligence and agentic workflows. By overseeing system-level architecture, evaluating technical trade-offs, and establishing data governance and reliability standards, you will ensure solutions are secure, and commercially viable.

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:

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with executive stakeholders to advise on technology strategy, translating ambiguous enterprise needs into structured technical road maps and solutions.
• Lead discovery workshops and business capability mapping sessions to define solution constraints, operational goals, and value-based implementation sequences.
• Oversee the design and execution of cloud-native system architectures, utilizing domain-driven design, event-driven patterns, and secure integration blueprints.
• Guide the technical development of repeatable solutions, application modernization frameworks, and artificial intelligence orchestrations while ensuring system diagnostics and compliance with industry standards.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to cross-functional delivery teams, driving agile governance, code design reviews, and architecture decision logs to ensure product excellence.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in professional services or customer-facing roles designing cloud architectures based on enterprise requirements.
• Experience writing software in one or more languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go).
• Experience in software development, internet infrastructure, or migration solutions in virtual environments.
• Experience leading technical execution for multi-system projects and delivering technical strategies to executive stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience designing cloud-native distributed systems and integrating artificial intelligence models into enterprise applications.
• Experience establishing technical strategies, data governance standards, and architectures for regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with standard IT security practices, including identity and access management, data protection, and encryption.
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, continuous integration pipelines, and container orchestration technologies.
• Ability to advise executive stakeholders on capability mapping and aligning technical roadmaps with business objectives.