Customer Engineer, Platform, Mobility, DACH (English, German)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. * 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role. * Experience in programming languages, debugging, systems design, prototyping, demos, or customer workshops. * Experience in addressing customers from the automotive or manufacturing industries. * Experience in sales, consulting or project management. * Ability to communicate in English and German fluently to support client relationship management in this region. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: * Experience driving the entire sales cycle (e.g., defining the delivery and consumption plan and transitioning it for execution). * Experience building long-term technical strategies to uncover new workloads with customers. * Experience migrating applications and services to cloud platforms. * Experience with security concepts (e.g., encryption, identity management, access control, attack vectors, penetration testing). * Experience prospecting, and building and maintaining new customer relationships from scratch, with excitement for building out Greenfield territories. * Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to 30% of the time). ABOUT THE JOB: As a Platform Customer Engineer (CE), you will partner with technical Sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as the customer’s primary technical partner and trusted advisor, engaging in technical-led conversations to understand their business issues. You will troubleshoot technical questions and roadblocks, engage in proofs-of-concepts and demos, and use your expertise to architect cross-pillar cloud solutions that solve these business issues. You will drive the technical win and define the delivery and consumption plans. You will use your acumen and presentation skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will have excellent technical, communication and organizational skills. You will focus on identifying, pursuing, and winning new business workloads and driving penetration within existing ones. You will have a breadth of technical expertise, spanning infrastructure modernization, application modernization, data analytics and more. You will blend sales expertise, market knowledge and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Germany: €112000 - €114000 (EUR) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/]. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Develop and own the technical account plan and strategy, participating in planning and supporting targeted sales motions. * Combine sales, programming, and solutions architecture expertise to prove the value of Google Cloud Platform across the portfolio through complex demos, pilots and in-depth workshops. * Architect cross-pillar solutions, drive technical wins, and define initial delivery plans for customers, continue to lead the technical engagement in the solution phase. * Facilitate the post-sales transition by supporting pricing activities and transitioning the final delivery plan to implementation teams. * Maintain awareness of progress against the delivery plan, providing support to cross-functional teams during ramp, delivery, migration or implementation phases.