Head of Enterprise Architecture - Palo Alto Networks

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

The evolving and transformative role IT can have in the industry in general and Palo Alto Networks in particular as we scale the company for multiproduct security means new opportunities in the way we help transform the business and optimize IT. We are looking to hire the leader of Enterprise Architecture who will closely partner with the CIO leadership team with focus on Architecture, Engineering and Quality Excellence. The leader will partner closely with company and functional strategic teams to ensure an IT strategy that is closely aligned with business strategy.

This position will report directly to the CIO at Palo Alto Networks.

Your Impact

• Partner with the CIO, IT Exec staff, and functional leaders on defining/refining the IT Architecture Strategy that will promote nimbleness and drive agility, flexibility and efficiency for IT &  business
• Establish, prioritize, and maintain the overall Enterprise Architecture strategy and approach for Palo Alto Networks, engaging all IT/Digital functions in alignment, co-creation, and on-going partnership
• Lead an organization responsible to work horizontally across the technology practices to build, maintain and govern the execution of the enterprise blueprints, emerging tech radar and trends, architecture principles, standards, and tools
• Develop and promote modern architectural approaches that encourage value exchange with partners and customers, digitization of processes, business connectivity, and partner collaboration
• Frame large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, from current state assessments to the target state with first-principle thinking, and take ownership with  technical oversight alongside the delivery team to meet the architectural and engineering outcomes
• Initiate, champion, and govern Digital platform-centric delivery strategy, scaling use of strategic platforms to deliver new business strategies and capabilities
• Take ownership for continuously simplifying and optimizing the IT/Technology landscape for the company with focus on nimbleness, operational efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Drive and own Engineering Excellence with the developer community by evolving the technology delivery process from end-to-end, including use of consistent configurations and tooling, embedded risk assessment and security governance, and reusable and composable architectures
• Cultivate technical expertise and champion and enable learning, adoption, reskill and reuse across Digital, with focus on scale-ready technologies and approaches, such as DevSecOps, platform-centric delivery, cloud-native approaches, others
• Drive and own Quality Excellence for IT by establishing the right process, KPI and execution of quality across all the initiatives - The success of the quality program will be measured based on automation, defect density, defect leak and contribution of QA process to the overall delivery velocity improvements
• Adopt a security-first design that embeds robust authentication, hardened infrastructure and resilient connectivity across Cloud and data center environments

Your Experience 

• Graduate level degree (Masters) preferred with undergraduate degree required(computer science preferred or equivalent military experience )
• Experience in complex enterprises with growing responsibilities highly preferred 
• 10+ years progressive Information Technology experience - 5+ years management and strategy definition/execution experience
• Strong proficiency with cloud services (e.g. - OpenShift, Azure, AWS), modern JS frameworks (e.g. - React, Angular, NodeJS), SQL and NoSQL DBMS (e.g. - SQL Server, Postgresql, Mysql, Redis, MongoDB), Object oriented development (e.g. - Java, Node.js, Go, Rust or .NET/C#), REST based microservice APIs, DevOps & CI/CD, and COTS (SAP, SalesForce, Steelbrick, etc.)
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Good collaboration skills to work in a matrix structure through influence with the ability to simplify the complexity with elegance
• Proven experience leading and inspiring a high-performing team to support growth objectives
• Demonstrated ability of building quick alignment, driving to decisions, influencing without positional power, and collaborating to producing improved outcomes
• Have a startup personality that is hands on, driven, strategic, accountable, ethical, collaborative, hard-working, and productive

The Team

Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You’ll join the brightest minds in technology, creating, building, and supporting tools and enabling our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks.

We’re connected by one mission but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team of people who feel excited by the prospect of a challenge and feel a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $252,000/yr to $344,700/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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.