Data Consultant, Professional Services, Google Cloud

Google•Chicago, IL

About The Position

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 Data Consultant, you will work with customers on critical projects to help them transform their businesses. You will provide management, consulting, and technical capabilities to customer engagements while working with customer executives and key technical leaders to deploy solutions via Google Cloud Platform. You will also work with key partners, serving accounts to manage programs, deliver consulting services, and provide technical guidance and best practice expertise. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience in project management and technical solution delivery.
Experience architecting, developing, or maintaining technical solutions in virtualized environments.
Experience in systems design and architecting or explaining systems interactions, including data flows, common interfaces, APIs, and methods.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Experience reading software code in one or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, and Python).
Experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed data processing systems with one or more technologies (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Vertica, Netezza, Teradata, Tableau, or MicroStrategy).
Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Work with customer technical leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful implementations of cloud solutions becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.
Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud based distributed virtualized infrastructure solutions according to complex customer requirements and implementation best practices.
Work with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package approaches, best practices, and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies, and published assets.
Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.