SecOps & Data Analytics Architect | Presales Leader

GuidePoint Security; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking 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.

Qualifications

• Seven to ten years of experience in security operations, security architecture, SIEM engineering, data engineering, observability, or related fields.
• 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 operating models, SIEM, SOAR, detection engineering, automation, security telemetry, data pipelines, and observability.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture, APIs, authentication, networking, data formats, schemas, integration patterns, and access-control concepts.

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.

Skills

Security operations

Security architecture

SIEM engineering

Data engineering

Observability

Consulting

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field

Equivalent professional or military experience

CISSP or comparable credential (preferred)

Tools

APIs

Cloud architectures

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking 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.