Principal Cloud Architect, Google Cloud

About the job

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the teams, customer executives, and technical leadership, translating complex technical roadmaps into clear business value and risk assessments
• Define the multi-year, enterprise-wide strategy for cloud adoption, migration, and modernization, with a strong focus on Google Cloud services and strategic interoperability with the second cloud platform (Pref AWS)
• Establish and enforce global cloud governance frameworks, architectural standards, reference models, and reusable patterns for deployment, security, and operations across all environments
• Drive advanced DevOps practices and accountability models
• Oversee cloud cost optimization initiatives, and establish technical guardrails to ensure maximum ROI across the multi-cloud footprint.
• Architect and lead the implementation of complex, large-scale solutions on Google Cloud, with hands-on experience in leveraging services like GKE, Cloud Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Cloud Spanner
• Design and govern the integration patterns for hybrid and multi-cloud systems, focusing on low-latency, secure connectivity, and consistent Identity and Access Management (IAM) across platforms (e.g., using federated identity or centralized key management)
• Define the DevSecOps and cloud security posture, ensuring that designs meet stringent regulatory (e.g., data residency) and global compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)
• Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for emerging technologies like Generative AI (e.g., Google Vertex AI or AWS Bedrock), serverless computing, and define their eventual architecture and integration into the enterprise landscape
• Architect a comprehensive visibility strategy to monitor system health and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks across complex cloud environments
• Design automated governance guardrails that ensure every deployment is secure, compliant, and cost-optimized by default.
• Mentor, coach, and grow a group of Senior/Lead Cloud Engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous learning
• Own and drive continuous improvement of the cloud architecture delivery pipeline, promoting GitOps and end-to-end automation across the development lifecycle
• Collaborate with the Data & AI Team and Engineering Leads to ensure architectural decisions align with product roadmaps and business domain goals
• Elevate the organization’s technical brand by authoring engineering blogs and whitepapers, and representing the company as a speaker at industry conferences and meetups.

About you

• Experience: At least 5-10 years in Cloud Architecture leadership roles managing enterprise-scale transformations
• Google Cloud as a primary platform: Mastery of Google Cloud services, networking, and security
• Second Cloud: Deep architectural experience in AWS (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS) or Azure
• Certifications: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (Preferred), Professional/Expert-level certification from the secondary cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional)…