Partner Solution Architect, Regional System Integrators — Google Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 4 days ago
Role overview
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Drive VIP, "red-carpet" bootcamps and hackathons for your partners to accelerate business cycles and to ensure high-quality on time delivery, driving a successful path to consumption.
- Provide targeted pre-sales architectural support exclusively for RSIs and strategic partners in South, acting as a technical peer to Account Customer Engineers to unblock complex agreements or customize partner activation.
- 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
Main responsibilities
- Drive VIP, "red-carpet" bootcamps and hackathons for your partners to accelerate business cycles and to ensure high-quality on time delivery, driving a successful path to consumption.
- Provide targeted pre-sales architectural support exclusively for RSIs and strategic partners in South, acting as a technical peer to Account Customer Engineers to unblock complex agreements or customize partner activation.
- Serve as the regional pre-sales design authority by authoring baseline enterprise replicable assets (e.g., functional AI demos).
- Lead deep-dive technical sessions and hackathons for the regional Partner Technology Community to broadcast enablement 1-to-many.
- Contribute to building, running and maintaining EMEA Partner Technology Community.
- Be responsible for the technical review and validation of the highest impact statement of works (SoWs) to ensure a strict path to production and secure Partner funding return on investment (ROI).
Key requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience in public cloud architecture, including compute, networking, IAM, and microservices.
Application process
- Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware.
- Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life.
- As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
- As a Partner Solution Architect, serve as the pre-sales solution design authority for our priority Regional System Integrators (RSIs) and strategic partners across the South geo clusters.
- You will be the ecosystem co-pilot to Google Cloud's Account Platform Customer Engineers.
- Where the Account Platform Customer Engineer owns the direct customer relationship and strategy, you will own your partner's technical capability to successfully deliver it.
- You will move seamlessly from regional advisory to deep, domain-specific execution (AI, Data, or Infrastructure) to capture the pre-sales gap, while ruthlessly deflecting post-sales delivery.
- As a Partner Solution Architect for RSIs and Strategic Partners, you will work in close collaboration with the Partner Development Managers responsible for the RSIs and Strategic Partners in your sub-region to create, drive and execute a joint business plan successfully, focusing on most impactful engagements across your sub-region and contribute to Partner Community in your domain of expertise.
Company and context
- Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry.
- We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge 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.
Additional details
- Experience in pre-sales agreement acceleration, running technical proof of concepts (PoCs), and leading technical workshops.
- Ability to drive and influence partner technical audiences, identify expansion engagements within partner accounts, and ensure accelerated agreement velocity with zero partner-delivery escalations on partner-led delivery agreements .
Notes and original content
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Questions about this listing
What salary does Google Switzerland offer for this role?
Google Switzerland lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Google Switzerland offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Google Switzerland during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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