Director of Solutions Architecture Symplified, Inc.

As a Director of Solutions Architecture you are responsible for working with Symplified's customers to help them understand how to best leverage Symplified's cloud security platform. In this capacity you will work with major enterprises across several industry verticals to help define their Identity Management strategy as it relates to their usage of Cloud applications. You will also work directly with Symplfied's CTO and CEO to design and enhance an industry leading cloud security service.

You love to solve problems and like a systems analyst, you have a balanced mix of technical and business skills. You now write less code and the business needs your technical expertise to help drive decisions on architecture and infrastructure. You leave the coding to the developers have not forgotten what you've learned; you take data from the internal and external stakeholders and design solutions to meet their demands.

What you get to do every day:

• Work with customer stakeholders to understand and define their needs, and design architectures that enable customers to implement technical solutions for their business needs


• Work with the CTO and CEO and others to define strategic direction both conforming to, and helping to define your end deliverables


• Contribute to Symplified’s product planning and strategy


• Analyze and recommend complimentary technologies to be part of a complete customer solution


• Define solution ‘playbooks’ and best practices that can be leveraged by our sales engineering team


• Provide technical leadership and direction to our Systems Engineering and Service Delivery teams


• Create and give technical presentations to customers, partners, and industry conferences


• Manage relationships with software architects, developers, operational personnel and technology leadership - CTO, CIO, and Directors within prospect organizations


• Review and analyze current technology infrastructure and its ability to support strategic objectives of the customer


• Combine detailed technical capability and experience, business process knowledge, and a deep understanding of the technical enablement of the application ecosystem and interdependencies


• Research and analyze emerging identity standards

What you bring to the role:

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years experience with:

• BS Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline and a minimum of 10+ years in systems or information related field with progressive experience in Enterprise Data Architecture


• Working knowledge of Identity Management and Web Access Management systems required


• Management style that exhibits high energy, strategic thinking, collaboration, direct communication and results orientation


• Effective working in matrix management environment


• Extensive experience in enterprise application deployment architectures, environments and concerns - scalability, performance, availability, reliability, security


• Certifications related to system security and network architecture a plus


• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Compensation:

• Salary dependent on experience


• Stock option plan


• Benefits Include: Medical, Dental, 401(k), Life Insurance, Bus Pass, Gym Membership, Paid Volunteer Hours, and more

Flexible Location:
Employment Type:	Full Time
Functional Area:	Other