Job Description

Company Description

For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose-built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 3,900 companies and have detected 100 Million threats/day.

We work in a fast-paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrives on being the first to solve problems. We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.

Traditional security companies are becoming less relevant as cloud adoption and digital transformation become the norm in every market industry and in every market segmentation. Zscaler has been a leader in Gartner\'s MQ for 10 consecutive years and has helped shape the emerging SASE category (a true category creator). We are well positioned to dominate this massively growing cloud security market.



A Zscaler Transformation Architect is a Director level role and an industry expert who advises, encourages, and challenges customers and prospects to evolve their cybersecurity architecture from one based on legacy Network and Perimeter architectures to one based on Zero Trust Architecture design principles leveraging the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange (ZTE).

As a leader of Transformation Architects, you will bring the right mix of technical, sales, and business acumen delivered with empathy and creative problem-solving.

The Transformation Architect organization connects with many stakeholders, requiring that our teams lead and engage sideways within the hierarchy, not just up and down.

The ideal candidate will have a similar background to that of Transformation Architects but with the additional abilities required to be a formal people leader, a coach/mentor to those around you, and a trusted advisor to senior leadership.

More information on the team(s) you will lead is below. Their success is your success.

Zscaler Transformation Architects help our customers Secure, Simplify and Transform. Examples of related topics are\xe2\x80\xa6

• Security & Network Transformation
• Application and Infrastructure Modernization
• The Modern Workplace with hybrid working

The Transformation Architect is primarily a pre-sales role that will facilitate consultative discovery and design workshops meant to uncover a customer\'s business requirements and their current state architecture. The information uncovered is used to design a high-level Zero Trust Architecture including a phased adoption roadmap expressing how the customer can transform to a Zero Trust Architecture future state over time.

The Transformation Architect needs to engage across customer functional teams, as well as Zscaler partner and internal teams, to develop rapport and to ensure success. Interactions will range across the customer organizational structure from customer engineer to customer executive.

These efforts require a collaborative, seasoned industry professional who can code-switch seamlessly between CXO and IT Operations audiences. The candidate should convey and be able to balance a combination of executive presence and deep technical credibility. The ability to adopt a confident, yet consultative customer-facing persona is key. Think of \xe2\x80\x9cexecutive presence\xe2\x80\x9d plus humility.

Qualifications

Successful candidates typically have 15+ years of relevant industry experience, or 10+ years of experience and an advanced degree in domains such as Networking and Cybersecurity, and hold or have held advanced relevant industry certifications.

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• Is a Technology Evangelist who understands the competitive landscapes, industry trends and dynamics as they relate to Zscaler\'s value proposition.
• Possesses a strong business acumen, can think on their feet and are able to pivot and control the conversation during meetings to achieve desired outcomes.
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to make the complex simple.
• Is self-aware, effectively balances their qualities of IQ, EQ, SQ and AQ appropriately.
• Maintains advanced product expertise and solution development capability, delivering on advanced solution selling.
• Understands end-to-end Enterprise Architectures with an extensive understanding of complex Networking and Security environments. Additional Cloud expertise and knowledge of other adjacent domains is a plus.
• Has hands-on experience with various technologies including TCP/IP protocol stack, DNS, BGP routing, MPLS, SD-WAN, GRE, IPsec, Layer-7 firewalls, Web Proxies, Load Balancing and Data Loss Prevention among others.
• Is well versed in NIST Zero Trust Architecture, is familiar with applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, and best practices, including GxP, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, CISA.
• Assists with educating, influencing, mentoring and coaching activities within the team and across the organization.
• Adopts a coach / mentor mindset, sharing both technical and sales experience to up-level our collective team through on the job training, enablement and collaboration.
• Provides senior thought leadership. Internally - Influencing the organization and company direction. Externally - Using customer / partner facing venues (events, social media, etc.) to influence industry direction.

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Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we\'d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at .

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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