Customer Engineering Manager, Data Analytics, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Sydney NSW, Australia +1

This role is for a Customer Engineering Manager for Data Analytics at Google Cloud, focusing on accelerating customer success by providing technical expertise and leading a team of subject matter experts. The role involves modernizing data architectures for AI readiness, leading the data-for-AI technical community, influencing product roadmaps, and leading technical engagements with strategic customers. While the role focuses on enabling customers with AI, the core responsibility is customer engineering and management, not direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of technical experts in a matrixed organization. Focus on talent strategy, assessing go-to-market readiness and gaps in CE preparedness, skills development in emerging AI/ML technologies, and opportunity coverage to deliver successful cloud and AI transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate business goals.
  2. Execute the technical goal and strategy for your region’s data analytics and AI practice. Lead the broader region's data-for-AI technical community to ensure sub-regional technical contributions, achieving scale through artifact and innovation sharing across analytics, vector databases, and generative AI patterns.
  3. Influence cross-functional teams, including Product Management and Engineering, ensuring customer needs regarding data pipelines, governance, and AI infrastructure are represented in product roadmaps and new technology is incubated and scaled.
  4. Lead technical engagements with strategic customers, working with cross-functional peers to plan customer engagements that unlock business value.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
  • Experience in pre-sales or field engineering at an enterprise technology company, or similar customer-facing role.
  • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
  • Experience in pre-sales management or people management on a data analytics related or technical team.
  • Experience with data analytics technologies or concepts, cloud, and on-premise technologies.

Nice to have

  • Experience influencing cross-functional teams (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, Sales), customers, and partners to impact business goals, customer experience, and customer expansion.
  • Experience tailoring and delivering compelling messages to audiences, asking strategic questions, and leading conversations that drive business opportunity.
  • Experience in Big Data, including analytics warehousing, data processing, data transformation, data governance, data migrations, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Extract, Load, Transform (ELT), SQL, NoSQL, performance or scalability optimizations, or batch versus streaming.
  • Ability to be a thought leader in data analytics and adjacent practice areas, specializing in technical sales and strategizing around customer and industry solutions.

What the JD emphasized

  • emerging AI/ML technologies
  • data analytics and AI practice
  • data-for-AI technical community
  • generative AI patterns
  • data pipelines, governance, and AI infrastructure