Practice Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
Sydney NSW, Australia Melbourne VIC, Australia Until 10/4/2026 10+ years exp First posted August 5, 2026 Last posted August 5, 2026
Job description
About the Job
In this role, you will lead and deploy a team of enterprise subject matter experts responsible for working alongside our customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical blockers. You will foster a culture of sales and technical excellence and understand the mechanics of architecture, delivery, and consumption within your specialized domain and Google Cloud’s products and solutions.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
- Lead a team of enterprise applications sales specialists, focusing on pipeline creation, conversion, meeting and exceeding goals within the Australia and New Zealand (AuNZ) sub-region.
- Lead a team of practice customer engineers within the AuNZ sub-region, focusing on team culture, talent strategy, and skills development to deliver successful cloud transformations for customers and accelerate value realization.
- Foster customer partnership and provide thought leadership related to cloud, transformation, and highly specialized technical solutions in practice to drive technical wins.
- Partner with sales to define technical go-to-market strategies and delivery plans, focusing on advanced workload adoption and repeatable solution development.
- Balance technical leadership with operational excellence, lead workload and opportunity review meetings and provide insight into how to achieve a technical win and migration strategy, working directly with customers, partners, and prospects. Oversee domain-specific prototyping and proofs-of-concept.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
- Experience with leadership (e.g., people management, team lead, mentorship, coaching).
- Experience with enterprise application (e.g., SAP, VMware, Oracle) technologies or concepts, cloud, and on-premise technologies.
- Experience leading technical conversations, demos, prototyping or workshops with customers.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams, customers, and partners to impact business goals, customer experience, and customer expansion.
- Experience as a pre-sales manager or technical customer-facing people manager within a professional services or sales engineering team.
- Experience with enterprise IT environment and requirements for enterprise applications including migration and modernization of compute, storage, data protection and governance to public cloud environments.
- Experience with SAP, VMware migration to Cloud.
- Thought leader in enterprise applications and IT environment, specialized in technical sales and strategizing around customer and industry solutions.
Additional Information
At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.About this role
Summary
Lead and develop cloud customer engineering teams for enterprise solutions and migrations.
Job title
Practice Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
Experience level
10+ years
Minimum experience
10+ years exp
Industry
software
Location requirements
Sydney or Melbourne, Australia; remote work allowed
Salary
Not specified
Management role
Yes
Skills & keywords
Required skills
cloud native architectureenterprise applicationsteam leadershipcustomer engagementtechnical conversations
Preferred skills
enterprise application migrationSAPVMwarecloud modernizationpre-sales management
Specializations
cloud native architectureenterprise applicationsmigrationmodernizationcloud solutions
Locations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Sydney NSW, Australia
On-site City
Melbourne VIC, Australia
On-site City