Google Hiring for Sales Engineer, Data Analytics, Retail, Google Cloud at Chicago, IL Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in virtualization or cloud native architectures in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience with traditional Analytic Warehouse solutions, “Big Data” technologies, Real Time Streaming, performance, and scalability optimizations.
- Experience in performing technical presentations or public speaking.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced education in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics).
- Experience in technical sales or professional consulting in the fields of cloud computing, data, information lifecycle management, and Big Data.
- Experience developing data warehousing, data lakes, batch or real-time event processing and ETL workflows solutions.
- Knowledge of Retail technology solutions.
- Ability to address DNS, TCP, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Load Balancing, VPN and VPC and working knowledge of Linux.
- Ability to learn quickly, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
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.
With Retail companies relying on Google Cloud, we regularly answer questions about technical features, helping customers design architectures, engage in proof of concepts, and troubleshoot potential roadblocks related to database migration and data back ends. As a Sales Engineer for Data Analytics, you’ll utilize both your technical and communication skills to address all aspects of the data lifecycle.
Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Support local sales teams in pursuit of key business opportunities, engage customers to address aspects of the data lifecycle.
- Identify business and technical requirements, conduct full technical discovery, and architect customer solutions to meet gathered requirements.
- Be responsible for leading technical projects, including such activities as technology advocacy, supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of supporting technical resources.
- Work with Google Cloud Platform products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer/partner environments. Travel as needed for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.
- 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 RFI response documents.
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