Description
WHO WE ARE
Come join the company reinventing data security, empowering businesses to realize the full potential of their data. As the leading data security platform purpose-built for the cloud era, Cyera’s mission is to reinvent how businesses secure data, enable agile collaboration, and boldly pursue new business opportunities. Trusted by security teams at leading global businesses, our team is proving that data security is the next big thing in cyber. Backed by the world’s leading investors and working with a large and growing list of Fortune 1000 companies, we are looking for world-class talent to join us as we usher in the new era of data security.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We’re looking for a dynamic, hands-on Solution Architect Team Lead to lead and grow our US-based OCTO Scanning team. In this role, you’ll combine technical expertise with people leadership, owning the most complex customer engagements while guiding and mentoring a team of Solution Architects.
This team plays a key role in driving customer success, product adoption, and internal enablement which serves as the critical technical bridge between Cyera’s R&D teams and our field teams, including Sales Engineering and Customer Success.
In addition to overseeing the US team, you’ll lead the design and deployment of Cyera’s platform in complex enterprise environments, resolve nuanced implementation challenges, and help operationalize our product at scale. If you're passionate about cloud security, data protection, and bringing products to life for customers, this is a rare opportunity to make a significant impact in a high-growth company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor a team of Solution Architects providing guidance, feedback, and professional development opportunities.
- Act as the senior technical point of contact, leading the most complex and strategic customer engagements across pre-sale and post-sale efforts, while guiding the team on technical execution.
Technical Enablement & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Act as the primary liaison between R&D and go-to-market teams, translating technical requirements, product feedback, and deployment needs in both directions.
- Support product feature rollouts by ensuring internal readiness across Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and other stakeholders.
- Create documentation, frameworks, and internal tooling that standardize and streamline deployments and support.
Customer-Facing Architecture & Implementation
- Partner with field teams to design, guide, and troubleshoot complex customer deployments of Cyera’s platform.
- Lead the operationalization of Cyera’s data scanning and protection capabilities across cloud-native and hybrid environments.
- Build scalable deployment strategies that drive faster time-to-value and consistent outcomes for enterprise customers.
Issue Resolution & Technical Depth
- Diagnose and triage complex customer issues involving cloud platforms, network configurations, and data pipelines.
- Work hands-on with engineering teams to address high-priority bugs and implementation blockers.
- Maintain a deep technical understanding of Cyera’s architecture and evolving security technologies.
Thought Leadership & Innovation
- Stay current on industry trends in data security, cloud technologies, and enterprise architecture.
- Act as a mentor to field-facing technical teams, providing guidance on best practices, architecture, and use case alignment.
- Influence the product roadmap by identifying opportunities for improvement based on customer feedback and field experience.
Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in a Solution Architect, Sales Engineering, or Technical Consulting role—preferably in the data security or cloud platform space.
- 2+ years in a leadership position.
- Proven track record leading and mentoring engineers/architects in fast-paced environments and complex technical initiatives.
- Experience working on Federal accounts.
- Exceptional communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams and lead through influence and trust.
- Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including securing workloads and services across these environments.
- Strong experience with structured and unstructured data—able to write and optimize queries, analyze datasets, and surface actionable insights.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, CISSP, or CCSP.
- Experience working in or with fast-paced startups or high-growth companies.
- Familiarity with modern data architectures, cloud-native security tools, or data privacy frameworks.
COMPENSATION INFORMATION:
The range represents total compensation, and may include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
This compensation range represents Cyera’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of posting, and Cyera may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. The final salary for this position will be determined in Cyera’s sole discretion, consistent with applicable law, and based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the employee’s work experience, skills, and qualifications for the role, as well as the needs of Cyera’s business and other operational considerations.
Final compensation will vary based on seniority and relevance of experience, location, and position requirements.
This role may be eligible for potential merit increases based on factors such as individual or company performance, time in role, and other discretionary factors.In addition to a standard benefits and equity package, we offer a generous salary. Final compensation will vary based on seniority and relevance of experience, location, and position requirements.
This role may be eligible for potential merit increases based on factors such as individual or company performance, time in role, and other discretionary factors.
** BENEFITS - Why Cyera? **
- Ability to work remotely, with office setup reimbursement
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid holidays and sick time
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Life, short and long-term disability insurance