Customer Engineer, Data Management, Retail, Google Cloud

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

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• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities for database migrations.
• Understand key customer business and technical issues, and develop strategies and solutions to support their migrations.
• Inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and coordinating technical resources.
• Design the goal architecture and the migration strategy to minimize the migration effort, risk, and downtime.
• Work with customers to demonstrate and prototype migrations into the Google Cloud database offerings in customer and partner environments.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to complete solutions using best practices on Google Cloud.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with database administration or cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders; experience leading demonstrations of database products.
• Experience with Oracle or DB2 database technologies, PL/SQL development, administration and management tools, or database performance tuning techniques.
• Experience with Oracle or DB2 to PostgreSQL data migrations, including Schema/Code conversion tools, zero downtime migration strategies or technologies, or regression testing strategies and automation tools.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or other technical field.
• Experience learning and working with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
• Experience in technical sales or consulting in systems integration, data transfer and management, and enterprise database performance.
• Experience optimizing database performance with transactional or analytic workloads, and experience with disaster recovery and data backup strategies.
• Knowledge of DevOps principles and database automation tools.
• Understanding of cloud-based database architectures and deployments (e.g., GCP) and knowledge of distributed or big data technologies.

Skills

• Excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills, engaging with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.
• Blending sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
• Retailer Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

US: $152000 - $222000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits