Principal Architect - Cybersecurity

Logicalis Malaysia Sdn Bhd; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Logicalis Malaysia Sdn Bhd is seeking a principal cybersecurity architect to lead security strategy and reference architectures for mid-size and enterprise clients across manufacturing, healthcare, GovEd sectors.

You will collaborate with sales, architecture, Professional Services, Managed Services, and partners to translate business objectives into practical cybersecurity solutions with measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of cybersecurity strategies, reference architectures, roadmaps, designs, and proposals that align client objectives with cyber risk and regulatory requirements.
• Provides architectural leadership across key cybersecurity domains, including network and cloud security, identity, endpoint, data protection, security operations, governance and compliance, AI security, and cyber resilience.
• Conducts assessments, studies, workshops, and surveys to advise on current-state risks, target-state architectures, investment priorities, and remediation roadmaps.
• Helps clients evolve from vulnerability-focused approaches toward risk-based exposure management and prioritized remediation based on business impact.
• Helps clients understand emerging cybersecurity risks, including AI-enabled threats and expanded attack surfaces.
• Qualifies new business opportunities from a technical and architectural perspective to ensure alignment with target markets and offerings.
• Develops and reviews SOWs, WBSs, assumptions, deliverables, and reusable templates to ensure solutions are sound and deliverable.
• Develops repeatable cybersecurity architectures, methodologies, and service blueprints for consistent delivery.
• Contributes to the evolution of cybersecurity architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and IP.
• Designs cybersecurity solutions with consideration for advisory, implementation, adoption, Managed Services, optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Serves as a trusted advisor for engagements, facilitating executive and technical discussions around risk, architecture, resilience, and investment roadmaps.
• Partners with Account Executives and Solutions Architects to identify opportunities and develop multi-phase roadmaps.
• Provides input to account planning, participates in customer meetings, and supports consultative and transformative sales opportunities.
• Maintains relationships across partner ecosystems and explores how technologies can be integrated into broader Logicalis offerings.
• Works with services, solutions, and OEM partners to identify, develop, and operationalize new cybersecurity offerings and capabilities.
• Supports offering ideation, pricing strategy, and value proposition development across the offering lifecycle.
• Creates and delivers technical enablement for design, implementation, and managed elements of cybersecurity offerings, including training and sales tools.
• Enables the Service Delivery team to implement offerings successfully and assists in positioning their business benefits.

Job description

Summary

Serves as a principal technical and architectural leader for Logicalis' Cybersecurity Practice, helping clients translate business objectives, cyber risk, compliance requirements, and emerging threats into practical cybersecurity strategies and architectures. Provides pre-sales cybersecurity solution support to Account Executives and clients as an integral part of the full sales process, with a focus on mid-size and enterprise accounts across key Logicalis vertical markets, including manufacturing, healthcare, and Government and Education (GovEd).

Works closely with clients, Logicalis sales, architecture, Professional Services, Managed Services, and strategic technology partners to develop cybersecurity solutions that deliver measurable business and security outcomes. This position also plays a leadership role in identifying, developing, operationalizing, and enabling new cybersecurity offerings, architectures, methodologies, and messaging for the Logicalis sales and delivery communities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Leads the development of cybersecurity strategies, reference architectures, roadmaps, designs, and proposals that align Logicalis capabilities with client business objectives, cyber risk, regulatory requirements, and technology strategy.

Provides architectural leadership across key cybersecurity domains, including network and cloud security, identity, endpoint, data protection, security operations, exposure management, attack path analysis, governance and compliance, AI security, and cyber resilience.

Conducts assessments, studies, workshops, and surveys to obtain and analyze data; advises clients on current-state risks, target-state architectures, investment priorities, and practical remediation roadmaps.

Helps clients evolve from traditional vulnerability and control-focused approaches toward risk-based exposure management, attack-path analysis, and prioritized remediation based on business impact.

Helps clients understand and address emerging cybersecurity risks, including AI-enabled threats, secure AI adoption, expanded attack surfaces, identity-based attacks, and rapidly evolving adversary techniques.

Qualifies, from a technical and architectural perspective, new business opportunities and requirements within existing and prospective clients to ensure alignment with target markets, the Logicalis portfolio, and delivery and lifecycle services capabilities.

Develops and reviews cybersecurity Statements of Work (SOWs), Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs), assumptions, deliverables, and reusable SOW templates in partnership with Professional Services to ensure solutions are technically sound, outcome-oriented, repeatable, and deliverable.

Develops repeatable cybersecurity architectures, methodologies, assessment models, service blueprints, workshops, and supporting intellectual property that can be consistently positioned and delivered across Logicalis clients.

Contributes to the continued development and evolution of Logicalis cybersecurity architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and intellectual property.

Designs cybersecurity solutions with consideration for the full client lifecycle, including advisory, implementation, adoption, Managed Services, optimization, recurring assessment, and continuous improvement.

Serves as a trusted cybersecurity advisor for strategic client engagements, facilitating executive and technical discussions around cyber risk, security architecture, modernization priorities, regulatory requirements, resilience, and investment roadmaps.

Partners with Account Executives and Solutions Architects to identify cybersecurity opportunities within strategic accounts and develop multi-phase security roadmaps rather than isolated technology transactions.

Provides input to account planning for key accounts; participates in customer meetings and executive customer engagements; and supports consultative and transformative sales opportunities.

Maintains strong technical relationships across the Logicalis strategic cybersecurity partner ecosystem and understands how partner technologies can be integrated into broader Logicalis architectures and services to achieve customer outcomes.

Works with Logicalis services, solutions, and OEM partners to identify, develop, and operationalize new cybersecurity offerings and capabilities.

Supports offering ideation and development, partner alignment, workshop and consulting offer creation, pricing strategy, and value proposition development across the offering lifecycle.

Creates and delivers technical enablement for the design, implementation, and managed elements of cybersecurity offerings, including technical training, sales tools, internal communications, and practice updates.

Enables the Service Delivery team to implement Logicalis cybersecurity offerings successfully and enables Solutions Architects and Sales Engineers to position the offerings and their business benefits effectively.

Provides technical