Principal Architect, Cloud

Google is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Principal Architect for their Cloud division. The role involves building trusted relationships with strategic accounts, providing expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and making recommendations on integration strategies to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP engineering, CTO and CIO, and 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 up to 50% of the time as required

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders
• Experience with structured enterprise architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps
• Experience in enterprise technology buying and evaluation process, and in building, architecting, designing and implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems
• Understanding of large-scale computing solutions
• Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products
• Knowledge of technology solutions, with the ability to learn and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Company Overview

• Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.google.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Google has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8763 in 2025, 8872 in 2024, 9682 in 2023, 11626 in 2022, 9109 in 2021, 9785 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.