SecOps Security Architect - North Central region; Remote U.S

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

We are looking for an experienced Security Operations and Data Architect to support presales, solution architecture, engagement scoping, and technical delivery across Sec Ops and Data Analytics services. This role will engage in the development of target architectures, professional-services solutions, and technology roadmaps while providing "Wow Them" service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.

The Security Operations and Data Architect must demonstrate strong architecture, consulting, presales, and executive communication skills. The architect must lead through influence and apply strong business and financial acumen when developing solutions that align delivery objectives, client priorities, technical feasibility, level of effort, delivery risk, and expected business outcomes.

The Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients design, implement, optimize, and mature the technologies and operating models used to manage security and operational data. We deliver advisory and engineering services across SOC, SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, data analytics, observability, detection engineering, automation, and emerging AI-enabled Security Operations.

Our team of architects, consultants, Sec Ops engineers, data engineers, and platform specialists focuses on architecture, technical delivery, platform integration, data quality, detection coverage, automation, and operational maturity. We partner with account executives, project managers, technology providers, client leadership, and engineering teams to develop practical and supportable solutions.

Key areas of focus include:

• Connecting client requirements to appropriate technologies and service offerings.
• Improving the accuracy and consistency of technical scoping and delivery.
• Developing repeatable architectures, estimation models, and implementation standards.

• 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 Sec Ops 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 Sec Ops Engineers and Sec Ops 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.

• 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,…