Technical Delivery Architect

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.

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.

Your Career As the Technical Delivery Architect for Cortex Professional Services, you will be the definitive technical authority for our regional deployment team. In this role, you will define the "gold standard" for how Cortex platforms are deployed—covering Cortex XDR, XSOAR, and Cortex Cloud posture, while keeping a heavy, primary focus on Cortex XSIAM . You will translate high-level architectural visions into repeatable, actionable deployment methodologies for the consulting team to execute. You will act as the crucial technical bridge between our core delivery consultants and broader technical teams, including SOC Transformation Architects (STAs), the Technical Assistance Center (TAC), the Center of Excellence (COE), and Product Engineering. By owning the technical methodology and serving as the ultimate escalation point for complex deployment challenges, you will unblock the team, ensure consistent technical excellence, and drive the evolution of our delivery practices.

Own Deployment Methodologies: Design, document, and govern technical blueprints and deployment standards across the Cortex and Cortex Cloud portfolios, with a major emphasis on Cortex XSIAM, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and premium quality. Act as the Technical Bridge: Serve as the primary technical conduit between pre-sales/STAs and post-sales delivery, translating strategic SOC transformation roadmaps into actionable deployment execution. Lead Technical Escalations: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point for the consulting team. Unblock consultants facing advanced challenges such as custom parsers, complex API integrations, and XSIAM correlation engineering. Interface with Core Tech Teams: Drive alignment with TAC, COE, and Product Management. Relay field feedback to influence product roadmaps and leverage COE best practices to continuously improve local delivery standards. Enable the Team: Lead technical enablement, mentoring, and QA for consultant deliverables. Upskill the broader team to handle modern, AI-driven SOC operations and cloud security upgrades, and convert any consultant downtime into focused technical initiatives, training, and process uplifts.

Your Experience Extensive hands-on experience deploying, architecting, and optimizing advanced SIEM, SOAR, and SOC technologies in large enterprise environments. Deep technical expertise in log parsing, normalization, enrichment, and detection engineering (expert knowledge of Cortex XSIAM, Cortex Cloud, XSOAR, XDR, or legacy platforms like Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar). Proven ability to design scalable technical methodologies and translate complex architectural concepts into step-by-step operational workflows. Strong scripting and