Google Cloud Industry Consultant
Accountabilities As a Google Cloud Industry Consultant, you'll be accountable for:
- Pioneering Solutions and Market Building: Act as an entrepreneur within Endava, working with Endava sellers to identify new market opportunities and build a pipeline of projects. You'll be a key player in the entire sales cycle, from initial discovery to closing the deal, focusing on selling services that leverage Google Cloud's capabilities to solve customer challenges.
- Collaborative Client Engagement: Work in close partnership with Endava industry sellers and Google sellers throughout the client engagement process. At times, you may lead the process, directing strategy and client interactions. In other situations, you'll be a key member of a collaborative team, providing technical expertise and support to achieve a shared goal.
- Solution Architecture & Design: Design and architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on GCP. This includes creating detailed technical architectures, selecting appropriate GCP services, and defining migration and modernization strategies for complex enterprise environments.
- Technical Leadership & Delivery: Act as a hands-on technical leader, guiding delivery teams through the initial phases of client projects. You'll ensure architectural integrity and quality throughout the implementation process, providing expert guidance on everything from infrastructure as code (IaC) to CI/CD pipelines.
- Industry Expertise & Thought Leadership: Apply your deep knowledge of a specific industry (e.g., Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare) to tailor solutions that address unique sector-specific challenges and regulatory requirements. You'll contribute to Endava's intellectual capital by developing best practices, frameworks, and reusable assets.
Attributes
- We're looking for someone with a blend of technical prowess, strategic thinking, and exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Builder & Entrepreneur: You must have a strong desire to build and grow something new. You're proactive, resourceful, and comfortable with ambiguity. You're energized by the challenge of creating a pipeline and closing deals.
- Trusted Advisor: You should be a credible and reliable source of expertise for clients and colleagues, capable of building long-term relationships based on trust and mutual respect.
- Problem Solver: You'll need to be analytical and adept at diagnosing complex business and technical issues. Your ability to think critically and propose innovative solutions is essential.
- Communicator: You must be able to articulate complex technical concepts in a clear, concise manner to a variety of audiences, from technical leads to non-technical business executives.
- Collaborator: The role requires working effectively with diverse, globally distributed teams and stakeholders. You'll need to share knowledge and contribute to a supportive, collaborative culture.
Qualifications
Ideal Profile The ideal candidate will possess a compelling mix of experience and technical certifications. Experience:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a cloud architecture, consulting, or solution design role.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing large-scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Demonstrated industry expertise in banking, payments or insurance
- Experience working in a pre-sales or business development capacity, including identifying opportunities, preparing proposals, and delivering pitches.
Technical Skills:
- Expert knowledge of core GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, IAM, Networking).
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
- Deeper technical experience in either AI & Data (e.g., Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow) or Security (e.g., Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, Security Command Center) is highly preferred.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools.
- Understanding of data management, security, and governance best practices in a cloud environment.
Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is highly preferred.
- Additional GCP certifications (e.g., Professional Data Engineer, Professional DevOps Engineer) are a plus
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