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An enterprise is planning a multi-year migration to Google Cloud that involves establishing an enterprise landing zone, modernizing legacy batch analytics into real-time streaming pipelines, and enforcing a cloud-native zero-trust security architecture.
During a team readiness assessment, management discovers that while the internal IT staff possesses deep knowledge of on-premises infrastructure, systems administration, and relational database management, the organization lacks expertise in scalable cloud architecture, cloud data pipeline engineering, and cloud identity and security controls.
Which strategy should the organization execute to address these competency gaps and establish long-term operational sustainability?
Technical competency mapping is the strategic process of evaluating an organization's existing talent against the specialized technical capabilities required to design, deploy, and operate cloud environments. In the context of the Google Cloud Architecture Framework, building a sustainable cloud adoption model requires clearly defining roles such as Cloud Architects, Data Engineers, and Cloud Security Specialists, while determining how current staff can transition into these positions.
A comprehensive capability analysis combined with a hybrid upskilling and strategic hiring plan ensures that the organization achieves immediate architectural sound governance while empowering current personnel to operate and scale the platform over the long term.
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