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Principal Security Architect
Location: Remote Preference for candidates based in the Eastern U.S., followed by Central, then Western regions
Travel Requirements: Remote with occasional travel within the continental U.S.
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Security Architect to help grow our Security Practice. This is a hands-on role combining both security architecture and engineering delivery with sales enablement responsibilities. You'll be responsible for delivering exceptional outcomes for clients, supporting pre-sales activities, and contributing to the strategic development of security services and solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute to both security architecture design and implementation projects.
- Split time between professional services delivery and pre-sales support (50/50 split expected; may shift based on demand).
- Participate in or lead delivery projects, assessments, and consulting engagements.
- Collaborate with internal teams including other practice areas, solution architects, engineers, and sales.
- Create and deliver high-quality design artifacts such as HLDs, LLDs, BOMs, SOWs, and LOEs.
- Respond to RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.
- Develop and present collateral (presentations, feature matrices, pre-sales decks).
- Research and integrate emerging technologies through lab evaluations and cross-platform integrations.
- Deliver internal enablement and knowledge transfer sessions.
Required Qualifications
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills across all levels of client organizations.
- Ability to independently produce technical documentation and advisory content.
- Strong experience driving pre-sales opportunities from initiation to close.
- Capable of leading and/or overseeing successful delivery of security projects.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving mindset in fast-paced environments.
- Willingness to co-develop and co-lead workshops and executive briefings.
Preferred Qualifications & Certifications (Nice to Have)
- Certifications:
- CISSP, CISA, or CISM
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- Azure Security Engineer
- Tanium (TCO, TCA)
- Zscaler (ZDTA, ZTCA)
- CyberArk (Defender, Sentry, Guardian)
- SailPoint (IdentityIQ or IdentityNow Engineer)
- Fortinet (NSE 4+, or FCP+)
- Palo Alto (PCNSE or higher)
- Expertise in 1 2 domains such as:
- Network Security
- Cloud Security
- Application Security
- Endpoint Security
- Identity & Access Management
- Experience in enterprise security deployments within Fortune 250 companies.