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What you’ll be doing...

You’ll be using your technical expertise and sales skills to help develop complex security and networking solutions for our customers. You’ll provide customer training and advisement, conducting needs analyses, developing appropriate solutions, and executing on new solutions. You’ll present the roadmap and vision for these solutions to leadership. We are constantly innovating to bring the best cutting-edge technologies to our customers to enable them to work faster and smarter and you can be part of the team to make this happen.

  • Developing and owning proposals and long term customer strategies.
  • Translating customer business issues/opportunities and designing complex solutions.
  • Presenting proposed architectures and business outcomes to leadership.
  • Providing security development and integration across platforms.
  • Managing teams cross-organizationally to develop and implement customer solutions.

What we’re looking for...

Principal Security Architects will act as final arbiter of solution elements, and technical editor of proposal narratives. Their role in the sales cycle is to own, lead, and direct the technical elements of the opportunity, including customer presentation, requirements gathering, solution design, quote creation, and administrative support of the sale. They will participate in business discussions including defining support roles, service levels, pricing structure, and program management and engage third-party providers as necessary to complete the solution. They will support their Vertical or Regional Sales Management team(s), Partner Channels, Strategic Account Managers, and other sales engagement teams, including assisting with deal prioritization and task delegation across the Solution Architecting teams. They will engage SME’s, within or external to the Security SA team, for assistance when necessary and appropriate. They will participate in collecting customer requirements, presenting company capabilities, performing live demonstrations, and representing the company during commercial events and trade shows. They will serve a critical role in ensuring that all quoted solutions are supportable and manageable by the company including validating SLA language and fitness for operational stability. The Principal Architect role helps to ensure that all technical questions are answered, all internal sales and approval processes are followed, and that the customer’s requirements are fully met by the various teams involved in the quoting implementation, and transition process. They will also provide mentoring to Solution Architecting staff and assist with training development and presentation, as requested.

A successful candidate will play a key partnership role to the field sales team as a technical advisor and will report to the Manager of Security Solution Architecture.

You’ll have to have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
  • 6+ years of experience in Security Solutions
  • 5+ years in a customer-facing role
  • 5+ years of architecture experience in conceptualization, definition and development of security based products and services
  • 5+ years of experience in the following areas:
    • Large-scale distributed enterprise security infrastructure
    • Government agency contractual vehicles
    • Various Federal IT and Security compliance requirements
    • Governance, Risk and Compliance, including working knowledge of Federal regulatory concerns
    • Security Policy Assessment & Development
    • Global Managed Security Services
    • Threat and Risk Intelligence
    • Risk Management strategy
    • Security Data Aggregation and Analytics
    • Vulnerability Management
    • Identity and Access Management
    • Forensic investigation, discovery, and fraud
    • DDOS Attack Detection and Mitigation
    • Security Consulting/Professional Services
  • Knowledge of technical capabilities of major Security hardware and software solutions, both within the Verizon portfolio, offered by partners, or offered by competitors.
  • Experience with commonly used Security and Internet concepts, practices and procedures
  • Awareness of Security Industry trends, including recent breaches, new or re-occurring attack vectors, and current research initiatives.
  • Presentation skills, including the ability to develop and deliver technical presentations and tailor content to the audience.
  • Knowledge of business concepts and financial practices common to large agencies
  • Experience creating, maintaining, and following documented processes and procedures.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Experience bidding on and selling through long-term Federal contract vehicles
  • Knowledge of State and Federal government budget cycles
  • Ability to travel 10%.
  • US Citizen with ability to be cleared

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

  • Team lead or Project Management experience on a strategic long-term project (6+ month sales pursuit, 12+ month implementation, 5+ year contract term).
  • Experience consulting with Federal Government agencies
  • Advanced industry certification (CISSP, CISM, CISA, PCIP, CEH, GCIH, GPEN, CCSK, Security+).
  • Technology certifications: Cisco, BlueCoat, CheckPoint, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Splunk, Symantec
  • Best Practices & Frameworks certifications: ITIL
  • Salesforce.com or similar Sales Automation software including custom report generation
  • Front-line Operations experience with relevant technologies for a revenue-generating platform within a large enterprise or agency
  • U.S. government security clearance

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this mobile role, you'll primarily work from customer or field location(s), with occasional visits to a Verizon location for in-person training and meetings.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

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