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Practice Architect, Agentic Data Cloud

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Compensation
$224–311K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Practice Architect, Agentic Data Cloud will own global strategy and business goals for Google Cloud’s Agentic Data Cloud GTM motion, partnering with Sales Specialists, Customer Engineering, and Forward Deployed Engineer leaders. The role engages customers through architecture discussions and demonstrations, translating feedback into product and play adaptations. It also shapes sales strategy, operating models, and execution across global teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Enterprise Cloud Architecture, requiredData Architecture, requiredAI Architecture, requiredGTM Leadership, requiredGTM Motion Design, requiredCommercial Commit Models, requiredQuota Models, requiredSpecialist Plays, requiredModern Data Platforms, requiredC-Suite Agreements, requiredGTM Operating Models, nice to haveOrganizational Design, nice to haveCapacity Planning, nice to haveIncentive Structures, nice to haveBigQuery, nice to haveIceberg Lakehouses, nice to haveSpanner, nice to haveAlloyDB, nice to haveKnowledge Catalog, nice to haveAgentic AI, nice to haveQuantitative Analysis, nice to havePropensity Modeling, nice to havePipeline Telemetry, nice to haveExecutive Resource Allocation, nice to haveValue Frameworks, nice to haveCategory Positioning, nice to haveCloud-Native Architecture, nice to haveDatabase Administration, nice to haveMachine Learning Model Development, nice to haveMachine Learning Deployment, nice to haveLegacy Application Modernization, nice to have

Qualifications

15 Years Enterprise Cloud, Data, or AI Architecture and GTM Leadership, requiredBachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, requiredMaster's in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Practice Architect, Agentic Data Cloud

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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 15 years of experience in enterprise cloud, data, or AI architecture and GTM leadership, with experience scaling $1B+ businesses.

  • Experience designing and executing global consumption GTM motions, commercial commit, quota models, or specialist plays.

  • Experience with architecture across modern data platforms and C-suite engaged agreements.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business (MBA), with cloud data architecture experience.

  • Experience implementing multi-year GTM operating models for consumption businesses, including organizational design, capacity planning, and incentive structures.

  • Experience building enterprise data and AI solutions using BigQuery, Iceberg lakehouses, Spanner, AlloyDB, Knowledge Catalog, and agentic AI.

  • Experience applying quantitative analysis, propensity modeling, and pipeline telemetry to support executive resource allocation.

  • Experience converting executive narratives, value frameworks, and category positioning into business wins with enterprise buyers.

  • Experience in cloud-native architecture (e.g., database administration and solutions, Machine Learning model development and deployment, modernizing legacy applications).

About the job

As a Global GTM Practice Architect for Agentic Data Cloud within Google Cloud, you will bring technical depth, commercial GTM mastery, and a proven track record to drive and scale the Go-To-Market (GTM) motion. Your goal is to own the global strategy and business goals for this business, and support execution in partnership with Sales Specialists, Customer Engineering, and Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) leaders. You will function at the core of numerous contributing teams and GTM stakeholder organizations, regionally and globally, to drive the design, implementation, and business results of the overall strategy.

As a member of this team, you will showcase technical credibility, executive presence, commercial judgment, and a relentless bias for execution in architecting and landing the right model for Google Cloud’s business objectives and the engaged market landscape. You will engage directly with customers, both whiteboarding and demonstrating Google Cloud’s data and AI architecture, and converting their feedback into product and play adaptations.

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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $224000 - $311000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Define and influence annual and quarterly GTM strategy and planning for Agentic Data Cloud (Data Analytics, Databases, and Knowledge Catalog), shaping organization design, talent and capacity models, account segmentation, commercial incentives, and field priorities.

  • Define, design, build, and execute a unified, full-funnel sales motion with cross-functional teams that threads Product, Sales, Customer Engineering (CE), Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), Marketing, and the partner ecosystem from pipeline generation through consumption.

  • Drive executive alignment and decision-making across a matrixed global organization, partnering with executive leaders across Sales, Technical Field, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to translate strategy into field execution.

  • Architect industry and platform-led sales plays, propensity targeting models, commercial offers, and business value frameworks that equip field teams to win engaged workloads and attach data to AI.

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How this job compares

Set against the 3,155 open Cloud Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$224–311K/yr
  • California median$154–239K/yr251 salary ranges
  • US median$147–239K/yr2,881 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $268K, is 35% above the California median midpoint ($199K) — in the top quarter of Cloud Architect salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 264 open Cloud Architect jobs in California and 3,155 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Cloud Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 9 years, across 2,702 postings).
Education
883 of the 3,155 open Cloud Architect jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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