SecOps Security Architect - North Central region (Remote in the U.S.)

GuidePoint Security LLC; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 548,000 - 704,000; Full time

Job summary

GuidePoint Security LLC in the North Central region seeks an experienced SecOps Security Architect to support presales, solution architecture, engagement scoping, and technical delivery across SecOps and Data Analytics services. This role will develop target architectures and roadmaps while delivering high-value solutions.

The architect must lead through influence, communicate with executives, and balance client priorities, feasibility, and delivery risk to achieve business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in security operations or architecture.
• Experience designing or leading SIEM, SOAR, or security analytics engagements.
• Experience with client discovery, solution architectures, scoping engagements, and estimating effort.
• Advanced understanding of SOC.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery translating client objectives into current-state and target-state architectures.
• Provide presales support with architecture diagrams, proposals and client responses.
• Define engagement scope, assumptions, deliverables, and level-of-effort estimates.
• Provide architectural leadership across SecOps Engineering and Data Analytics engagements.
• Evaluate SIEM, SOAR, data pipelines, observability, automation, AI for client use cases.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures and technical standards.
• Mentor engineers and review designs for accuracy and scope alignment.
• Collaborate with sales to qualify opportunities and align delivery with client needs.
• Support architecture workshops and delivery-quality reviews.

Skills

Security operations

Security architecture

SIEM engineering

Data engineering

Observability

Presales

Executive comms

Job description

SecOps Security Architect - North Central region (Remote in the U.S.)

Remote

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

We are looking for an experienced Security Operations and Data Architect to support presales, solution architecture, engagement scoping, and technical delivery across SecOps and Data Analytics services. This role will engage in the development of target architectures, professional-services solutions, and technology roadmaps while providing “Wow Them” service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.

The Security Operations and Data Architect must demonstrate strong architecture, consulting, presales, and executive communication skills. The architect must lead through influence and apply strong business and financial acumen when developing solutions that align delivery objectives, client priorities, technical feasibility, level of effort, delivery risk, and expected business outcomes.

About the North Central region SecOps Practice

The Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients design, implement, optimize, and mature the technologies and operating models used to manage security and operational data. We deliver advisory and engineering services across SOC, SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, data analytics, observability, detection engineering, automation, and emerging AI-enabled Security Operations.

Our team of architects, consultants, SecOps engineers, data engineers, and platform specialists focuses on architecture, technical delivery, platform integration, data quality, detection coverage, automation, and operational maturity. We partner with account executives, project managers, technology providers, client leadership, and engineering teams to develop practical and supportable solutions.

Key areas of focus include:

• Connecting client requirements to appropriate technologies and service offerings.


• Improving the accuracy and consistency of technical scoping and delivery.


• Developing repeatable architectures, estimation models, and implementation standards.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discovery and translate client objectives, environments, constraints, and risks into current-state and target-state architectures.


• Provide presales support by developing solution approaches, architecture diagrams, technical presentations, proposals, and responses to client requirements.


• Define engagement scope, activities, assumptions, dependencies, responsibilities, exclusions, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and level-of-effort estimates.


• Provide architectural leadership and technical oversight across SecOps Engineering and Data Analytics engagements.


• Evaluate SIEM, SOAR, data pipeline, observability, automation, AI, and related technologies against client use cases, integration requirements, operating models, and existing investments.


• Develop and maintain reference architectures, discovery questionnaires, scoping tools, estimation models, implementation patterns, and technical standards.


• Mentor SecOps Engineers and SecOps Data Engineers while reviewing designs and deliverables for technical accuracy, scope alignment, and maintainability.


• Partner with account executives and regional sales teams to qualify opportunities, shape services, identify technical risks, and establish realistic client expectations.


• Support strategic client engagements, architecture workshops, technical escalations, and delivery-quality reviews.


• Maintain awareness of regional pipeline, delivery capacity, technology demand, and skills requirements to help align opportunities with available practice capabilities.

Required Experience and Education:

• Seven to ten years of experience in security operations, security architecture, SIEM engineering, data engineering, observability, consulting, or related fields.


• Demonstrated experience designing or leading SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, data pipeline, observability, or security analytics engagements.


• Experience conducting client discovery, developing solution architectures, scoping professional-services engagements, and estimating engineering effort.


• Advanced understanding of SOC