Total 2 job vacancies by Palo Alto Networks

Your Career 

As the Ecosystems Solution Architect Manager, you are responsible for leading and developing a high-performing team of Solution Architects focused on driving business growth through strategic partnerships with Global System Integrators (GSIs), Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs). This role requires a deep understanding of the company's product suite, industry trends, and partner ecosystems. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, technical acumen, and relationship-building skills to effectively manage and enable partners to scale the business.

You will directly manage the regional Solution Architect team, supporting GSI, CSP, MSSP and Technology partners to scale the business.  Technical resources team while developing a centralized engagement strategy for the wider partner ecosystem. 

The role will require the services creation and leadership of virtual teams across the JAPAC region. You will also engage with the Partners to understand their challenges and identify development requirements. Ecosystem partners are critical to our business. We recognise that the partner landscape is differentiated and requires a tailored approach to our engagement strategy. This role will be responsible for the development and delivery of a tiered jointed solution and enablement plan which targets each of the partner categories with a consistent methodology. Distribution, Channel, Systems Integrators, and Managed Services across product platforms (Strata, SASE, Prisma Cloud, and Cortex). 

Your knowledge will be used to evolve the JAPAC  wider partner communication programs, working closely with the Global strategic team and Global Ecosystem organization to ensure consistent and efficient communication. Your work will lead to the development and delivery of partner communication both virtually and conference style.

We are looking for a leader who has strong leadership and organizational skills, and who is comfortable working in both a direct and matrix environment. Working in a matrix environment will require strong influencing skills to achieve your goals, as well as the ability to create clear goals, milestones and success criteria.  

Your Impact 

• Support the creation of an industry-leading Ecosystem partner landscape across the region
• Recruit and hire new Ecosystem Systems Engineers/Architects  into the team, hiring the best talent in the industry
• Develop relationships with the key Ecosystems partners, understand their challenges, and develop programs to enable them to be a successful Palo Alto Networks Ecosystem Partner
• Work with the Global Ecosystem team to ensure they understand and are meeting the requirements of our JAPAC Ecosystem partners
• Retain, train, mentor, and review employees on your team, while keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
• Must be able to maintain a positive outlook, while leading and keeping the GSI Partner SEs motivated in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
• Help define and continuously update the system engineering training/enablement roadmap with the support of Ecosystem leader
• Build and maintain virtual teams across the region to both support and drive consistent engagement and enablement activities
• Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and post-sales technical issues that arise from strategic partners
• Build relationships with the key technology partnerships for Palo Alto Networks
• Understand the emerging partner landscape of the CSPs (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS) and how we support their market requirements
• Steer conversations about industry trends and emerging changes on the security landscape that is relevant to the partners market requirements

Your Career 

The GSI Solutions Security Solutions Architect Is responsible to work with the internal and external GSI partner teams to successfully develop and position new joint offerings for one or more GSI partners. In this position you will lead all aspects of the technical solution building process, from initial discussion and tactics forming, building out technical service playbooks to helping to build out labs and supporting feedback from sales discussions. Some level of technical hands-on configuration may also be required.
Importantly, this person will also manage enablement activities for the business specific to the defined joint solution or set of joint solutions, working in coordination with the broader partnership GTM teams. 

The role will require close coordination with Sales, Sales Engineering leadership, Sales Executive leadership, Product Management, Marketing, Channel Partners, and the Consulting Engineering team. This is a senior technical role in the field and the value produced must be obvious and recurrent.
Additionally, we would expect you to keep one eye on the strategy and downstream roadmap, identifying and prototyping future plays and being an evangelist for emerging problems and client challenges

Your Impact 

As an experienced Solution Architect, you will be responsible for driving the successful offer development with GSI partners, as well as actively positioning the offer/s with the partners as a driver of the GTM.  Collaborating with Palo Alto Networks account teams and partners, you will drive deals through close.
In this key role, you will be the “go to” resource for:

• Collaborating with the GSI’s teams to drive and build unique solution offerings, leveraging the technical strengths & capabilities brought by Palo Alto Networks and the GSI

• Lead and support efforts defining solution architectures, design & implementation guides, and technical enablement plans that demonstrate Palo Alto Networks and the GSI’s value together. You will be leveraging solutions, services and product teams in this effort. 

• Drive the GTM of the offerings at the GSI and the customer

• Developing best practices and architectures that can be leveraged across all of the Enterprise

• Work closely with the GSI Business Development Director and Solutions team, as well as peers at the GSI (including but not limited to: Technical, PMO, Product and Solutions marketing, Service Creation, Enablement) to craft & execute plan for offer/s developed

• Engage directly with CIO, CISOs, and other key stakeholders at customers as a security expert to penetrate accounts and expand Palo Alto Networks install base through the Identification, qualification, and closure of opportunities

• Collaborating with Palo Alto Networks account teams and partners, drive deals through close

• Build a regular cadence of relationship-building, responsible for “partner peering” exercises to enable stronger partnerships.

• You will educate the GSI’s teams on our enterprise security platform value proposition to drive growth of our outcome-based solutions

• Work in highly collaborative environments to team with Account Managers, Sales Engineers, Marketing, and Channel Partners in the region to drive revenue and growth

• Help to exceed customer expectations by identifying impactful user cases that enable people to transform their businesses with Palo Alto Networks products

• Motivate and build extended teams around you to unlock the power of Palo Alto Networks Sales organization, customer base and partner organization