Cloud Solutions Architect

4 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Umbrella Club Full-time $140,000 - $190,000 Contract

We’re looking for an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect to help enterprise customers shape and deliver innovative cloud, data and AI solutions. This is a highly customer-facing role combining enterprise architecture, solution consulting, presales and executive stakeholder engagement.

What you’ll do

  • Guide customers in selecting the right Google Cloud (GCP) solution approach based on their business and technology needs
  • Design secure, scalable and resilient enterprise solutions across cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, data, analytics and AI
  • Develop solution architectures, estimates, delivery models, transition plans and technical proposals
  • Lead technical responses to RFIs/RFPs and actively participate in bids and solution development
  • Create compelling customer presentations, demonstrations and executive-level proposals
  • Work closely with sales, account, engineering and delivery teams to develop differentiated cloud propositions
  • Present cloud strategies, business cases and transformation roadmaps to CIO, CTO, CDO, CAIO and CISO-level stakeholders
  • Facilitate discovery sessions, architecture reviews, design-thinking workshops, AI value-envisioning sessions and cloud adoption discussions
  • Support deal qualification, solution reviews, delivery feasibility and commercial discussions
  • Stay up to date with emerging cloud, data and AI technologies and incorporate them into customer solutions

What we’re looking for

  • 6-10 years of experience in cloud architecture, solution consulting or a similar role
  • Strong experience architecting enterprise cloud, data and AI solutions
  • Experience with at least one major hyperscaler - Google Cloud, AWS or Azure
  • Strong Google Cloud/GCP experience and understanding of enterprise cloud architecture
  • Experience across cloud migration, modernisation, data platforms, analytics, AI and cloud operations
  • Strong customer-facing and presales/consulting experience
  • Proven experience responding to RFI/RFPs, developing proposals and solution architectures
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging CIO/CXO-level stakeholders
  • Ability to translate complex customer requirements into compelling and commercially viable solution approaches
  • Relevant Google Cloud certifications are highly regarded, including Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Melbourne, VIC