Practice Architect, Delivery Architecture – COE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Engage directly in intricate customer deployments to assess and validate COE delivery frameworks, playbooks, and tools.

• Act as a senior technical authority and escalation point for complex, high-risk, or large-scale Cortex XSIAM deployments.

• Ensure that delivery patterns are practical, efficient, and tailored to the needs of modern enterprise SOCs.

• Define, refine, and standardize delivery architecture patterns across various products, regions, and delivery models.

• Establish implementation dependencies, integration points, and sequencing among Cortex, Cloud, and Network Security platforms.

• Ensure that solution architectures translate into operational success for customer SOC teams.

• Oversee the entire deployment lifecycle from kickoff to optimization.

• Identify deployment friction and provide actionable feedback to COE frameworks and engineering teams.

• Lead and validate pilot programs for new delivery models, tooling, and automation.

• Collaborate with Professional Services, S&O, Product/Engineering, and Regional Leadership.

• Author runbooks, delivery playbooks, and best practices.

• Mentor consultants and architects on advanced execution strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated success in delivering multiple end-to-end Cortex XSIAM projects in complex customer settings.

• Hands-on experience within or closely associated with modern SOC environments.

• Strong comprehension of SIEM/SOAR transformations, threat detection, incident response workflows, and data ingestion architectures.

• Expertise across the Palo Alto Networks Cortex portfolio (XSIAM, XDR, XSOAR, XPANSE).

• Familiarity with Prisma Cloud/Network Security is advantageous.

• Extensive experience in Professional Services, Technical Consulting, or Systems Integration delivering large-scale enterprise cybersecurity solutions.

• Capability to identify execution gaps in real-time and develop practical, scalable solutions.

• Proven ability to influence, communicate, and collaborate across technical teams, product managers, and executive stakeholders.

• Immigration sponsorship is not available; applicants must not require work visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted stock units may be included.

• Bonus may be included.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with a disability or special need.