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