Verticals Solution Architect

Company Description

Why Join Us

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital work spaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.

This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You'll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.

We're proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.

What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.

If you're excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

The Verticals Solution Architect serves as a trusted technical advisor to strategic customers across Public Sector, Telecommunications, and other key industry verticals. This role is responsible for designing and positioning comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, driving adoption of new technologies, supporting large-scale customer initiatives, and enabling successful business outcomes through technical leadership and architectural expertise.

The Verticals Solution Architect partners closely with sales teams, customers, product management, professional services, support, and executive stakeholders to provide solution guidance throughout the customer lifecycle. The individual will leverage deep expertise in cybersecurity, networking, cloud, and emerging technologies to address complex customer challenges and drive successful project outcomes.

• Provide architectural design, solution recommendations, and establish project success criteria for strategic customer engagements.
• Design end-to-end security solutions that align with customer business, security, operational, and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the technical lead for complex customer opportunities and strategic initiatives across assigned vertical markets.
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies and lead Early Availability (EA) and Proof of Concept (PoC) programs within customer environments.
• Partner with sales teams to identify, qualify, and advance opportunities through the sales cycle.
• Manage technical escalations associated with major customer projects in conjunction with Solutions Center, Professional Services, Product Management, and Support organizations.
• Lead technical workshops, executive briefings, architecture reviews, and customer presentations.
• Assist customers with security transformation initiatives involving cloud, network, application, data center, and hybrid architectures.
• Act as a trusted advisor for industry-specific security challenges, including government compliance requirements, critical infrastructure protection, and telecommunications security architectures.
• Support successful closure of at least 15 strategic customer projects valued at $500,000 or greater annually.
• Provide field feedback to product management and engineering teams regarding customer requirements, competitive trends, and market opportunities.
• Mentor sales engineers and other technical personnel within the organization.
• Represent the company at industry events, customer forums, conferences, and partner engagements.

• 10+ years of engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, or pre-sales experience within enterprise, public sector, telecommunications, or large-scale commercial environments.
• Proven ability to architect and position complex cybersecurity solutions for large and highly regulated organizations.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise networking, routing, switching, security architectures, and hybrid IT environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of virtualization, containers, cloud-native architectures, and modern application environments.
• Experience managing complex customer engagements involving multiple stakeholders and project teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to engage executive and technical audiences.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical architectures and…