Senior SecOps & Data Architecture Leader - Remote

GuidePoint Security LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (US-based)

Medical Insurance (group)

Dental Insurance (group)

12 holidays + Flexible Time Off

Mobile/internet allowance

Retirement plan eligibility

Pet Benefit Option

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking an experienced Security Operations and Data Architect to support presales, engagement scoping, and technical delivery across SecOps and Data Analytics services. The architect will lead in target architectures, solution approaches, and reference designs while collaborating with executives and clients.

The role requires strong consulting, leadership, and communication skills, plus a deep understanding of SIEM, SOAR, data pipelines, and cloud integration to deliver

Qualifications

• 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 operating models, SIEM, SOAR, detection engineering, automation, security telemetry, data pipelines, and observability.
• Experience identifying technical assumptions, dependencies, delivery risks, acceptance criteria, and scope boundaries.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture, APIs, authentication, networking, data formats, schemas, integration patterns, and access-control concepts.
• Ability to review technical queries, scripts, transformations, detection logic, automation workflows, and architecture documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional and military experience.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.

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

Presales & architecture

Security Operations

Data Analytics

Executive communication

Mentoring

Cloud architecture

APIs & integration

Automation & AI tools

Education

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

Equivalent professional and military experience

Tools

Splunk

XSOAR

Cribl

Datadog

Elastic

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking an experienced Security Operations and Data Architect to support presales, engagement scoping, and technical delivery across SecOps and Data Analytics services. The architect will lead in target architectures, solution approaches, and reference designs while collaborating with executives and clients.

The role requires strong consulting, leadership, and communication skills, plus a deep understanding of SIEM, SOAR, data pipelines, and cloud integration to deliver