About this role
The Customer Engineering Manager for Data Analytics at Google Cloud leads a team of subject matter experts to provide technical guidance to customers, accelerating workload migrations and removing technical blockers. This role focuses on building AI-ready data foundations and driving the adoption of Data and AI workloads. Responsibilities include fostering a culture of technical excellence, partnering with Sales on go-to-market strategies, and overseeing prototyping and proofs-of-concept. You will provide thought leadership on data platform strategy, governance, and agentic AI architectures while collaborating cross-functionally to resolve technical roadblocks. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 10 years of experience with cloud-native architecture in a customer-facing role, leadership experience, and familiarity with data and AI/ML technologies. Preferred qualifications include experience in pre-sales management, influencing cross-functional teams, and expertise in data governance and metadata layers for grounding AI agents. The role requires strong communication skills to tailor technical messages for various audiences and drive value realization.