Customer Engineer, Data Analytics, Digital Natives

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with Big Data technologies, analytic warehousing technologies, data processing technologies, and performance and scalability optimizations.
- Experience in delivering technical presentations while leading discovery and planning sessions that are aligned with the customer's defined scope and success criteria.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- 1 year of experience working with Digital Natives or Startup Customers.
- Experience with technical sales or professional consulting in the fields of cloud computing, data analytics, and Big Data.
- Experience with architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design, and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of cloud computing and cloud market, engaged dynamics, and customer buying behavior.
- Understanding of customer requirements, with the ability to break down the requirements and design a technical architecture.

**About the job**:
When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Customer Engineer for Data Analytics, you will utilize both technical and communication skills to address all aspects of the data lifecycle. You will work in an environment of respect and inclusion where we promote equal opportunities to succeed.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology - all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support local Sales teams in pursuit of key business opportunities, and engage customers to address aspects of the data lifecycle.
- Work with the Sales team to identify business and technical requirements, conduct full technical discovery, and architect client solutions to meet gathered requirements.
- Lead technical projects such as technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of supporting technical resources.
- Prepare and deliver product messaging in an effort to highlight the Google Cloud Platform value proposition, using techniques that include whiteboard and slide presentations, product demonstrations, white papers, and Request for Information (RFI) response documents.
- Work with Google Cloud Platform products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer/partner environments. Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.