Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we're looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Our Approach to Work
We lead with personalization and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office with some flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate on the industry's best cybersecurity solutions together!
Job Description
Your Career
At Palo Alto Networks, we are committed to securing the digital world and empowering organizations with endless possibilities. This is a very unique opportunity for a senior technical leader with a strong industry focus to take on a regional strategic role within the world's leading cybersecurity company. We do not expect you to necessarily be a cybersecurity expert but to build on your deep understanding of enterprise architecture concepts within strategic industries to help customers better align their security and risk programs to business outcomes.
This is a critical role in the context of the JAPAC (Japan and Asia Pacific) business. As a key member of the technical leadership group in the region, the work you do will enable our customers to maintain strategic resilience against cyberattackers by aligning their risk and security initiatives with business outcomes.
Your Impact
Develop verticalized industry architecture blueprints and technical strategy for key customers across strategic industries and advise on strategies to embed cybersecurity in their key digital business initiatives.
Key industries of focus - Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Government.
Build relationships with key C-level executives such as CTOs, CIOs, BU owners, and Application Leaders in addition to CISOs and CIOs.
Function as a key member of the JAPAC technical leadership group, driving strategy and architecture solutioning for the largest strategic customers.
Work with the broader technical leadership group at Palo Alto Networks to align customers' digital modernization roadmaps to our strategic cybersecurity platformization domains.
Stay abreast of technical innovations around emerging topics such as Generative AI, Quantum Computing, etc. to proactively inform customers' innovation roadmap.
Provide proactive advisory services to customers around balancing digital innovation with compliance.
Qualifications
Your Experience
10+ years in a combination of Enterprise Architect/Principal Architect/CIO/CTO/Application Lead roles in End User organizations and/or deep consulting experience leading large scale cybersecurity transformation projects for customers in the strategic industries of focus.
Leading architecture strategy encompassing software, infrastructure, and cloud services in a way that drives clear business growth.
Developing complex multi-product architectures and communicating both the technical and business value of technical transformation projects in financial services.
Engaging directly with CIOs, CISOs, Boards of Directors, and other key stakeholders as a strategic advisor.
Deep understanding of regulatory preferences and mindset pertaining to strategic industries of focus.
Experience developing and documenting design principles, service catalogs, and reference architectures that become the de facto standard across the organization.
Cybersecurity domain expertise is welcome but not mandatory.
Additional Information
Our Commitment
We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at ******.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No.
Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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