Google Cloud Client Solutions Architect
West Monroe1 month ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$194k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define cloud strategies, roadmaps, and enterprise Google Cloud architectures aligned with client business goals.
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, analytics, AI, and integration.
- Assess current environments, define target-state architectures, and communicate recommendations, trade-offs, and risks to executive and technical stakeholders.
- Lead cloud migration, modernization, and cloud-native initiatives from planning through implementation.
- Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to establish architecture standards, review technical designs, and maintain delivery quality.
- Serve as a technical advisor during pursuits, discovery workshops, executive presentations, proposals, estimates, and technical positioning.
- Develop reusable architecture assets, methodologies, and best practices while mentoring consultants and engineers.
- Apply AI tools and technologies to improve analysis, delivery efficiency, insights, and client outcomes.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise cloud solutions, including significant Google Cloud Platform experience.
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, security, identity, application architecture, integration, and data platforms.
- Experience leading enterprise cloud modernization, migration, or cloud-native initiatives from strategy through implementation.
- Ability to translate business objectives into practical technical solutions and communicate architecture decisions to executive and technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with cross-functional consulting and engineering teams in complex enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with cloud data and analytics, AI and machine learning services, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD practices.
- Google Cloud certifications, including Professional Cloud Architect, are strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting retail, consumer products, supply chain, or other large-scale enterprise organizations is preferred.
- Experience integrating AI tools such as ChatGPT into workflows, with the critical thinking needed to assess accuracy and mitigate bias.
- Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Northwest Arkansas area and be able to travel 25–50%.
- Must be able to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage are available for employees and their families.
- Employees can enroll in a 401(k) plan and purchase shares through the employee stock ownership program.
- Annual bonuses, unlimited flexible time off, and ten paid holidays are provided.
- Ten weeks of paid parental leave is available upon hire date.
- Remote role based in the Northwest Arkansas/Bentonville area, with regular in-person client collaboration as needed and 25–50% travel.
- The role is subject to West Monroe’s policies regarding generative AI use during the application process and BrightHire interview recording.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About West Monroe
West Monroe is a Chicago-based business and technology consulting firm that helps enterprises and private equity sponsors improve operations and build digital capabilities. It sells project-based consulting across industries such as financial services, healthcare, energy, and software, including M&A advisory, customer experience, product and data strategy, and cybersecurity. Founded in 2002 and privately held under M/C Partners, it operates from multiple U.S. hubs.