AI-Driven Data Security Practice Architect (Remote)

Zscaler; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Zscaler is seeking a Practice Architect - Data Security to join our team. This remote role reports to the Sr.

Manager, Global Practice Architects in the CS Technology Practices team. The Practice Architect for Data Security serves as a post-sales technical authority for the Data Security portfolio, actively leading customer delivery on complex and first-of-kind deployments while simultaneously driving technical practice development.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise security, with 4+ years hands-on in data protection including DLP, CASB, DSPM, or data governance.
• Proven track record delivering complex post-sales engagements at enterprise scale for a technology vendor or systems integrator.
• Demonstrated experience producing technical methodology with clear evidence of field adoption.
• High technical credibility across security architects and CISOs with the ability to set technical direction across matrixed teams.
• Deep technical breadth across TLS/SSL inspection, proxy architectures, identity integration, SaaS API integration, endpoint agents, and SIEM/SOAR.

Responsibilities

• Actively lead design and implementation for complex, first-of-kind, and strategic customer engagements across discovery, classification taxonomy, and policy architecture
• Own the practice content portfolio end-to-end, maintaining the practice library and creating reference architectures, playbooks, design templates, and runbooks
• Partner with Customer Success Enablement to train delivery teams and mentor consultants into genuine data security experts
• Maintain a working lab to validate capabilities before field deployment and convert escalation learnings into reusable assets
• Serve as the named NPI owner for data protection releases, engaging Product teams ahead of GA and running post-GA retrospectives

Skills

AI tool use

Enterprise security

Data protection

Post-sales delivery

Technical leadership

Job description

Zscaler is seeking a Practice Architect - Data Security to join our team. This remote role reports to the Sr.

Manager, Global Practice Architects in the CS Technology Practices team. The Practice Architect for Data Security serves as a post-sales technical authority for the Data Security portfolio, actively leading customer delivery on complex and first-of-kind deployments while simultaneously driving technical practice development.