Principal Architect, Higher Education, Google Public Sector

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +2

This role is for a Principal Architect in Google Public Sector, focusing on higher education accounts. The primary responsibilities involve acting as a technical and business advisor, designing cloud strategies, and building trusted relationships with executive-level clients. While AI is mentioned as a preferred qualification, the core of the role is about overall cloud architecture, strategy, and client engagement within the public sector, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build a trusted advisory relationship with education accounts and engage with Architects, Vice Presidents, Chief Technical Officers and Chief Information Officers to identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver value and resolve blockers.
  2. Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Google Cloud with public sector customers, at conferences, and online.
  3. Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution while providing best practices to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
  4. Manage the enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, technical teams, and more.
  5. Onsite client-facing work at least 3 days a week with Stanford University.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or 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 with higher education markets in the state of California.
  • Experience in cloud market insights and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data.
  • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing, building and working with generative and agentic AI solutions.
  • Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices in hybrid cloud deployments and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
  • Experience in building, architecting, and designing/implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.
  • Knowledge of technology solutions with the ability to learn and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.

What the JD emphasized

  • design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem
  • enterprise architecture relationship
  • higher education markets in the state of California
  • cloud market insights and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data
  • Experience designing, building and working with generative and agentic AI solutions.