Technical Enablement Architect

Compensation context

This range is the expected starting base salary for this non-sales role. Restricted stock units (RSUs) and a bonus may be added.

Our Mission

Palo Alto Networks® describes one shared goal: keeping digital life safe. The company says it works where new ideas meet real results, tackling practical problems with advanced tools and fresh thinking. It says every person is heard and every suggestion matters, and it invites people who want career-defining work next to equally committed colleagues to apply.

Who We Are

To stay the security partner customers pick first, the company says it has to lead the way and set the direction for the industry. Staff pursue that daily through five stated values (Integrity, Inclusion, Collaboration, Disruption, and Execution). AI is built into how the company operates and is used to boost what each person can achieve. People who enjoy hard, real-world problems and want to brainstorm alongside top talent are encouraged to join.

The posting states the position is remote and that being apart does not limit impact. Hybrid teams work together across regions to tackle large problems, stay near customers, and grow. The culture is described as built on trust, accountability, and shared wins, with work that genuinely counts.

Job Summary

Do colleagues come to you when they need a complex technology explained, a solution designed, or the reasoning behind a product strategy made clear?

The Technical Enablement Architect is the company's lead specialist on its product portfolios. Working closely with GTM leaders, Technical Marketing, Engineering, and Product Management, you turn complex technology into programs that scale and that help the field get ready faster, customers adopt products sooner, and technical work succeed.

The job suits a technical expert who likes hard problems and shaping technical results at scale. You help decide how technical knowledge moves through the company so teams around the world can position, design, and deploy its solutions well.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and lead the readiness strategy for NetSec and SASE, along with an enablement roadmap spanning several quarters.
• Build learning paths by role, covering instructor-led classes, digital courses, labs, simulations, certifications, and AI-driven learning.
• Decide what technical skill levels and readiness measures new products and technologies require.
• Lead readiness work for big product launches so training and certifications are ready before General Availability.
• Build mastery programs, labs, assessments, and the frameworks behind certifications to lift technical quality.
• Give technical talks and workshops and act as a trusted adviser across the Network Security and SASE community.
• Keep improving readiness programs using field input, performance data, and business results.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• At least 7 years in a technical, customer-facing, or enablement job (for example Technical Marketing, Professional Services, Solution Architecture, or Systems Engineering), with deep knowledge of SecOps, SASE, and/or Network Security.
• Practical experience designing, deploying, troubleshooting, or supporting security products for enterprises.
• Strong presenting and facilitation skills, with a history of teaching technical material to varied audiences.
• Proven at making complex technical ideas simple and turning them into learning, guidance, or best practice that scales.
• Able to earn credibility and trust with hands-on practitioners, managers, and senior leaders alike.
• Has created or run technical courses, certifications, workshops, enablement programs, or other ways of sharing knowledge.
• Skilled with generative AI tools and with AI-driven platforms for learning, productivity, or enablement.
• Able to travel up to 30% of the year

Preferred Qualifications

• Has designed enablement in several formats: ILT, OLX, labs, simulations, and certifications.
• Has led certification development (running a JTA, or taking part in or leading an IDW).
• Has run NPI-driven content cycles across several formats.
• PCNSE, PCNSA, PCCSE, or an equivalent certification
• Has used Demostack, Reprise, or comparable simulation tools.
• Prior work in Customer Success, Professional Services, MSSP, Systems Engineering, or technical roles at channel partners.

Compensation Disclosure

What is paid depends on the candidate's qualifications and experience and on where they work. If the offer is made at the advertised level, the range shown below is the expected starting base for non-sales jobs, or base plus commission target for commissioned sales jobs. Restricted stock units (RSUs) and a bonus may be added, and the posting links to a description of benefits.

Range: $192,000 to $264,000 a year

Our Commitment

The company calls itself a group of trailblazers who aim high, take chances, and push back on the usual way cybersecurity is done. It says diverse teams working together are essential to its mission.

The company offers reasonable accommodations to qualified people with disabilities. Anyone needing help or an accommodation because of a disability or special need can email accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

The company states it offers equal employment opportunity and values a diverse workplace. Every qualified applicant is considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, marital status, family or medical care leave, genetic information, medical condition, political affiliation, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic the law protects.

Applicant information is kept private in line with EEO guidance.

Immigration sponsorship: not offered; the company will not sponsor work visas for this role.

Application process

Submit your application through NorthStar. Employer screening may follow after submission.