Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in developing, troubleshooting applications with popularly used DBMS such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Experience coding in Java, Python etc, and in writing queries using SQL and PL.
• Experience with database migrations strategies for enterprise scale.
• Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in designing and performing large-scale data migrations using various tools and services.
• Experience in Cloud Native Databases like Cloud Spanner, Cloud BigTable and AlloyDB.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database-related issues.
• Experience with encryption techniques like symmetric, asymmetric, Hardware Security Module (HSMs), envelop, and ability to implement secure key storage using Key Management System.
• Understanding of data security measures and encryption techniques.
• Knowledge of database design principles, data modeling, and the ability to translate business requirements into database structures.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. 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 Strategic Cloud Data Engineer, you will work with customers and partner teams to design, develop, deploy and manage scalable and reliable databases on the Google Cloud Platform meeting the Organization’s storage demands. You will work on data migrations and modernization projects incorporating best practices of data governance and security controls. You will travel to customer sites to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower customer teams to adhere to best practices in Database design and operations. Additionally, you will work with Product Management and Product Engineering teams to build and constantly drive excellence in the products that solve the biggest customer challenges.

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.

Responsibilities

• Interact with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into recommendations for scalable and cost-effective database solutions and advisory services.
• Engage with technical leads and partners to lead high velocity data migration and modernization to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Google or third-party tools and services.
• Develop and implement data quality and governance procedures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data.
• Work with customer or partner teams to troubleshoot their storage systems for potential performance challenges.
• Take various project requirements and organize them into clear goals and objectives, and create a work breakdown structure to manage internal and external stakeholders.