Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Role Overview:
The Solution Architect (SA) for Global System Integrators (GSIs) and Advisories is responsible for driving the technical strategy, alignment, and execution of joint initiatives with GSI and Advisory Partners. This person ensures that Partners are technically enabled, aligned with the product roadmap, and capable of building, marketing, and delivering high-quality outcomes using Palo Alto Networks Idira technologies.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Technical Enablement & Evangelism

Trains and enables GSI/Advisory partner architects, developers, consultants, and practitioners on the Idira technology stack.
Delivers workshops, certifications, and technical deep dives to ensure technical readiness for sales, presales and delivery personnel.
Serves as a trusted technical advisor and evangelist for the Idira solutions within Partner organizations.
Provides Partners with technical demo environments, sandboxes, virtual labs and trains and supports the Partner with any use cases or technical issues related to these environments.

2. Joint Solution Development

Lead the design and development of joint solutions or reference architectures with Partners.
Partners with GSI/Advisory technical teams to build repeatable offerings, accelerators, and IP that integrate the company's technology.
Ensure technical feasibility and quality assurance for all co-developed solutions by coordinating with Idira PM and R&D resources and the Partner’s technical teams.

3. Technical Strategy & Alignment

Together with Partner Account Manager, builds relationships with technical stakeholders within partner communities to ensure GTM strategies, plays, initiatives, enablement plans, marketing and use case development align to Palo Alto Networks expanding portfolio and vision
Align Partner technology roadmaps with Idira product strategy and priorities.
Influence the product roadmap based on partner and market feedback.
Recruit Partners into Idira Design Partner Programs, where available, to have Partners test pre-release product offering and provide technical and market feedback.
Provide strategic input to Partners on how to adopt and embed new platform capabilities into their existing and future offerings.

4. Pre-Sales & Field Collaboration

Support joint customer pursuits by contributing to solution design, technical presentations, and proof of concept (POC) development.
Work closely with internal sales engineers and Partner client service teams to co-sell and deliver projects.
Help remove technical blockers during the sales or implementation cycle.

5. Innovation & Thought Leadership

Identify emerging technologies and innovation areas where Palo Alto Networks and Partners can jointly invest.
Represent Idira at partner tech forums, industry conferences, and executive briefings.
Develop white papers, best practices, and solution briefs in collaboration with Partners.

6. Governance & Performance Monitoring

Define and track key technical success metrics: solution adoption, deployment velocity, enablement KPIs.
Establish technical governance models with Partners, including architecture councils or steering committees.

7. Partner Liaison

Assists Partner with issues related to enhancement requests (ERs) and helps bring awareness to the PM team and R&D around these requests.
Acts as a point of escalation to bring awareness of problematic support cases to the attention of Support Leadership
Consults with the Idira Training Team around curriculum requests, availability of training classes and Guardian Workshop enrollment and vetting.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in a customer facing field technical roles (e.g., solutions architect, technical partner manager, pre-sales).
Strong understanding of GSI/Advisory business models and enterprise architecture.
Strong understanding of Idira Solutions including PAM, Identity Security, Secrets Management and IGA technologies and architectures.
Deep technical knowledge in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS, or infrastructure.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface across business and engineering stakeholders.
Experience with co-innovation or joint GTM programs with GSI/Advisory Partners is highly desirable.
Business degree is a plus

Qualifications

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

Solutions Architect - Strategic Partnerships