Solutions Architect – Digital Platforms & Google Cloud

About the role

The Solutions Architect will join Google Cloud's Global Solutions and Consumer AI organization, helping financial services clients modernize capital‑markets workflows with blockchain, tokenization and AI‑driven automation. You will work closely with senior executives and client leads to translate business problems into technical prototypes and production‑ready solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Design and architect a scalable position‑keeping service for blockchain networks that supports tokenized, detokenized and hybrid financial instruments.
• Lead the development of a Wallet service that enables AI agents to query real‑time position data across GCP customers.
• Partner with client leads to create detailed Product Requirement Documents, define critical user journeys and success metrics.
• Integrate solutions with modern data foundations—relational databases, data lakehouses and real‑time streaming pipelines—to optimise AI retrieval and real‑time financial insights.
• Produce technical guides to ensure smooth hand‑off from proof‑of‑concept to engineering teams.

Required profile

• Minimum 7 years of software or data engineering experience, including Python, Go or Java development.
• Hands‑on experience with distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and tokenized asset lifecycles in regulated financial market infrastructures.
• Proven ability to drive discovery from vague business problems to structured PRDs and functional demos.
• Familiarity with financial‑services regulations, data residency, encryption (CMEK) and explainable AI requirements.

Required skills

• Python, Go, Java programming.
• BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Pub/Sub.
• Blockchain, DLT, smart‑contract development.
• Relational, NoSQL and analytical data modeling (Star Schema, Data Vault).
• AI tools for code acceleration and quality improvement.