NTT DATA, Inc.
1 month ago
Principal Cloud Technical Architect (Google)
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Company information
- Company
- NTT DATA, Inc.
- Location
- South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg South Africa
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
Make an impact with NTT DATA
Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Cloud Architect (Google Cloud) to partner with enterprise sales, consulting, and delivery teams in designing and positioning scalable, secure, resilient, and cost‑optimized cloud solutions for clients across South Africa and the Middle East & Africa. This role serves as the senior technical leader for Google Cloud architecture engagements, providing strategic guidance, solution leadership, and architectural governance across the full cloud lifecycle.
The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, translating business objectives into enterprise‑grade cloud architectures while supporting pre‑sales activities, solution design, migration strategies, modernization initiatives, and cloud transformation programs.
Key Responsibilities- Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of enterprise‑scale Google Cloud solutions.
- Partner with sales and client stakeholders to develop compelling cloud strategies, solution architectures, and transformation roadmaps.
- Design highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable cloud platforms using Google Cloud best practices and Google Cloud Architecture Framework principles.
- Define target‑state architectures covering networking, security, identity, observability, automation, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
- Develop and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager (or Infrastructure Manager) and Google Cloud configuration automation tools.
- Provide architectural leadership for cloud migration, application modernization, containerization, and serverless initiatives.
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to implement CI/CD and platform automation strategies.
- Drive cloud security, compliance, governance, and FinOps best practices.
- Perform architecture reviews and provide technical oversight throughout solution delivery.
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients, presenting technical solutions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
- Mentor architects and engineers while contributing to cloud capability development and thought leadership.
- Stay current with emerging Google Cloud services, industry trends, and cloud‑native technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or platform engineering, with at least 4 years focused on Google Cloud.
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification (required or strongly preferred). Additional Google Cloud certifications are advantageous.
- Deep expertise across Google Cloud services including VPC, Cloud Router, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Bigtable/Firestore, Cloud IAM, Resource Manager, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud DNS, and Backup and DR.
- Strong experience designing enterprise networking, identity, security, and governance architectures within Google Cloud.
- Hands‑on expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Google Cloud infrastructure automation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
- Experience implementing cloud security controls, compliance frameworks, and operational monitoring solutions.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, solution presentation, and documentation skills.
- Experience leading large‑scale cloud migration and modernization programs.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure in hybrid or multi‑cloud environments.
- Experience with serverless architectures, event‑driven systems, and cloud‑native application patterns.
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or Splunk.
- Background in software development or scripting using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Experience with cloud financial management (FinOps), cost optimization, and cloud governance frameworks.
- Experience supporting pre‑sales, solution consulting, RFP responses, and executive‑level client engagements.
- Experience supporting complex sales pursuits, RFP/RFI responses, solution workshops, and executive‑level client presentations.
Hybrid Working
Equal Opportunity EmployerNTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category.
Required skills
- docker
- industry trends
- engineering
- design
- compliance
- mentoring
- ci/cd
- operational excellence
- communication skills
- security
- governance
- resilience
- software development
- information technology
- inclusion
- python
- kubernetes
- automation
- git
- firestore
- devops
- bash
- powershell
- terraform
- datadog
- prometheus
- grafana
- microsoft azure
- serverless
- architecture
- technical leadership
- diversity
- ci/cd pipelines
- observability
- computer science
- compliance frameworks
- stakeholder management
- networking
- scripting
- high availability
- disaster recovery
- pre-sales
- cloud migration
- cloud security
- scalability
- splunk
- containerization
- devops practices
- cost optimization
- google cloud
- south africa
- cloud storage
- cloud architect
- trusted advisor
- it infrastructure
- automation frameworks
- technical governance
- engineering teams
- finops
- cloud transformation
- thought leadership
- identity management
- hybrid working
- cloud solutions
- documentation skills
- opensearch
- platform engineering
- enterprise architecture
- hybrid cloud
- solution consulting
- solution design
- cloud-native technologies
- bigtable
- equal opportunity employer
- rfp responses
- cloud run
- event-driven systems
- business objectives
- technical architect
- migration strategies
- vpc
- elk
- serverless architectures
- client presentations
- infrastructure as code (iac)
- solution delivery
- cloud functions
- architecture reviews
- observability platforms
- cloud sql
- technical oversight
- cloud strategies
- platform automation
- resource manager
- strategic guidance
- application teams
- compute engine
- multi-cloud environments
- security architectures
- enterprise-scale
- monitoring platforms
- solution workshops
- cloud monitoring
- scalable platforms
- security teams
- technical audiences
- enterprise networking
- modernization initiatives
- middle east & africa
- infrastructure manager
- cloud security controls
- operational monitoring
- application modernization
- modernization programs
- executive audiences
- solution presentation
- business audiences
- cloud dns
- cloud router
- rfi responses
- transformation roadmaps
- architectural governance
- google cloud deployment manager
- cloud-native application patterns
- platform engineering practices
- cloud iam
- identity architectures
- resilient platforms
- cloud governance frameworks
- google cloud certifications
- solution leadership
- cloud lifecycle
- enterprise-grade architectures
- google cloud best practices
- google cloud architecture framework
- target-state architectures
- google cloud configuration automation
- cloud capability development
- emerging cloud services
- google cloud professional cloud architect
- google kubernetes engine (gke)
- backup and dr
- governance architectures
- google cloud infrastructure automation
- large-scale cloud migration
- cloud financial management (finops)
- executive-level client engagements
- complex sales pursuits
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