Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, 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 in cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data, and cloud market insights.

• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders in the Telco industry.

• Ability to communicate in German fluently in order to interact in this customer-facing sales role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical field.

• Experience as an engineer in a cloud-computing environment or a customer-facing role, working as a member of a professional services or Systems Engineering team.

• Experience as Chief Security Officer or Technical Sales.

• Experience with Big Data, PaaS, and IaaS technologies.

• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud technology.

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.

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.

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP engineering, and C-level. Identify customer priorities, technical objections and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.

• Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with customers, at conferences and online.

• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.

• Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.

• Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.