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Google Cloud Engineering Director New York, New York
Title: Google Cloud Engineering Director
Job Type: Permanent
Primary Location: All Major Cities
The Challenge:
Our client is seeking an individual who can lead as a director, work as part of a team of problem solvers, and help to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Support team to disrupt, improve, and evolve ways of working when necessary.
- Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realize their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
- Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
- Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
- Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
- Promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
- Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
- Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Essential Skills and Requirements:
- Minimum Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree
- Minimum Years of Experience: 10 year(s) of demonstrated progression in roles leading IT architecture and engineering designs and domains; Minimum 5 years of experience building cloud applications on public cloud infrastructure
- Degree Preferred: Master’s Degree
- Preferred Fields of Study: Computer and Information Science
- Having thought leader level knowledge in architectural design and application delivery in technologies that include, but are not limited to cloud, mobile, web, APIs/microservices, automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment, AI/ML and emerging technologies
- Evaluating cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications
- Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications
- Leading complex efforts within established Software Development Lifecycle and Agile methodologies (SCRUM, kanban, SAFe and others)
- Leading architectural and engineering reviews of proposed product engineering investments/solutions to determine the strategic alignment and technical soundness
- Taking products from concept to implementation with multiple customers
- Architecting and deploying secure and robust applications in a cloud infrastructure
- Having thought leader level knowledge of MEAN stack, Hybrid Mobile Apps using Ionic that can scale to millions of users
- Leading complex efforts within established Software Development Lifecycle and Agile methodologies (SCRUM, kanban, SAFe and others)
- Leading architectural and engineering reviews of proposed product engineering investments/solutions to determine the strategic alignment and technical soundness
- Providing seasoned advice on application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues, and application rationalization
- Providing architectural and technical direction to multiple products simultaneously
- Working on multiple high priority initiatives with external customers and stakeholders
- Forecasting resource utilization and capacity and establishing and maintaining a planning process to forecast project timelines and identify additional resource requirements
- Fostering and maintaining partnerships with product teams and collaborating to provide technical input to steer product strategy
- Using business acumen to interpret and translate goals into technical specifications, delivering thought-leadership of specific technologies, and driving technology change
- Advising and influencing leaders on trends that could potentially affect the success of a function or business area
- Assembling concepts and communications appropriate for specific audiences at all staff levels within the firm and with customers
- Using business and interpersonal skills to build, maintain and influence relationships with senior leaders in IT and throughout a business
- Building trusting and influential relationships at all levels and engaging with vendors and third parties
- Understanding emerging technologies to market these technologies to business leadership and convey possibilities for new ways of working
- Promoting a culture of innovation by continuously seeking opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team, and the organization as a whole
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Working with global teams with mix of company and vendor resources
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