Sr Principal Cyber Architect

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Cybersecurity Presales Consultant to drive growth across Cybersecurity consulting services. This individual will play a pivotal role in new business acquisition, solution consulting, technical presales, and end-to-end RFP ownership. The role requires strong domain expertise, consultative selling capability, and the ability to engage confidently with CISOs, CIOs, and senior decision-makers.
This is an individual contributor role focused on revenue growth, solution leadership, and presales excellence

Key Responsibilities

Presales & Solution Consulting

- Serve as the technical front-end for customers, converting business needs into tailored cybersecurity solutions

- Coordinate solution design across Cybersecurity domains like GRC, Attack Surface Management, Security Engineering, Clinical Security, Application security

- Act as a solution consultant for cybersecurity services

Commercial & Strategic Responsibilities

- Coordinate proposal development, pricing discussions, contract reviews, and commercial negotiations.

- Support GTM initiatives, service model development, and capability presentations.

Client Engagement

- Manage the full sales lifecycle from lead generation to deal closure.

- Build, maintain, and grow a high-quality sales pipeline in CRM aligned to quarterly revenue goals.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Collaborate with consulting, delivery, architecture and engineering teams for solution validation and proposal support.

- Work with OEM & technology vendor partners to design competitive, differentiated solutions.

- Ensure operational readiness and resilience of Cybersecurity offerings, while managing risks, and proactively communicating status and outcomes to executive leadership.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- 10+ years in Cybersecurity, with 6+ years in presales, solution consulting, or security consulting.

- Good to have CISSP, ISSAP, OSCP, SANS, CISM, CISA or equivalent industry certifications

- Good understanding of global compliance frameworks: NIST, ISO 27001/2, HITRUST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CCPA, India regulations.

- Good knowledge of security technologies: SIEM, IAM/IGA, PAM/PIM, EDR, DLP, SASE, WAF, Cloud Security.

- Excellent communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, analytical and consultative skills.

- Ability to influence without authority and collaborate across technical and business teams.