Partner Delivery Excellence Lead, Google Cloud

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.

As the Partner Delivery Excellence Lead, you will serve as the principal embedded delivery authority based out of one of our primary tech hubs (Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai or Gurgaon). You will sit directly within strategic Global System Integrators' (GSIs) delivery environments, partnering shoulder-to-shoulder with GSI Google Cloud Platform(GCP) Practice Leaders, Delivery Executives, and Lead Architects. Your core objective is to ensure active GSI-led customer deployments are executing flawlessly without risk of failure, milestone slip, or architectural drift.

Bringing deep technical depth in Google Cloud, Data & Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (GenAI/Agentic Workflows), you will monitor project health telemetry, identify early delivery friction, and serve as the critical bridge to internal Google stakeholders, mobilizing Professional Services (PSO), Customer Engineering (CE) and Partner Leadership to deploy rapid remediation before issues escalate to the customer. Additionally, you will advocate delivery upskilling across thousands of GSI practitioners, driving adoption of Google Cloud’s Delivery Readiness Portal (DRP), Delivery Navigator (DelNav), reference architectures, and safeguarding programs.

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

• Serve as the embedded Google Cloud delivery authority within partner Global Delivery Centers (GDCs), establishing operational oversight across enterprise cloud transformation engagements to safeguard architectural integrity and milestone adherence.

• Identify technical roadblocks and delivery risks early, mobilizing cross-functional Google Cloud teams (PSO, Support, Partner Development Managers, Customer Engineering) to execute closed-loop remediation before issues impact customers.

• Provide authoritative architectural guidance across Data & Analytics and AI/ML (Vertex AI, agentic workflows), validating partner delivery approaches on complex, mission-critical workloads.

• Drive programmatic enablement across partner delivery benches utilizing Google Cloud readiness assets, Delivery Navigator runbooks, and safeguarding programs.

• Synthesize delivery patterns and partner capabilities back to Center of Excellence (CoE) and PSO teams, informing joint service offerings and governance policies.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience in cloud professional services delivery or enterprise solutions architecture.

• 5 years of technical architecture and Google Cloud delivery experience in enterprise Data and Analytics (Data warehousing, streaming/ETL, distributed systems) and AI/ML (Vertex AI, GenAI frameworks, predictive modeling).

• Experience working with Global System Integrators (GSIs), systems consulting delivery centers, or offshore delivery operations.

• Ability to travel up to 40% domestically across partner Global Delivery Center hubs as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience managing complex enterprise project escalations, turnaround interventions, or technical risk mitigation for cloud engagements.

• Experience deploying structured practitioner enablement frameworks, certification programs, or readiness portals at scale.

• Track record of using AI and agentic capabilities to increase personal productivity and impact in daily workflows.

• Ability to influence senior partner practice directors, delivery executives, and cross-functional leadership across Sales, PSO, and Engineering.