Services Architect
Who is Tenable?
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 50 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!
What makes Tenable such a great place to work?
Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!
Your Role:
The Services Architect is an advanced individual contributor within the Services Architecture team, contributing to the technical direction, quality, and delivery of content across the Professional Services Portfolio. Operating with a high degree of autonomy while aligning with the overarching portfolio strategy, this role leads the design and execution of net-new consulting service offerings, courses, and enablement programs, and helps establish standards for the broader team. In this position, the architect provides technical guidance across team projects, handles content and offering escalations, and actively mentors Associate Services Architects. Working in close collaboration with portfolio leadership, the role supports offering strategy and product roadmap alignment, while periodically teaching customer classes or delivering service engagements to ensure content remains grounded in real-world customer experience.
Your Opportunity:
Strategy & Portfolio Leadership
Portfolio Direction: Shape the Professional Services Portfolio by identifying gaps and opportunities and proposing and prioritizing new offerings aligned with corporate strategy and product roadmaps.
Offering Ownership: Design, draft, and update consulting service offerings, enablement content, educational material, and technical presentations for webinars and events, and lead development of the most complex and strategic net-new offerings.
Standards & Quality: Maintain high technical, content, and lab quality standards across the portfolio, ensuring that project outputs and contributions, including work from Associate Services Architects, consistently adhere to established team standards and templates.
Roadmap Alignment: Stay informed about Tenable product changes, evaluate requirements for offering updates, and plan portfolio updates well ahead of product release.
Advisory: Advise the Senior Director, Services Portfolio, on offering strategy, resourcing, and delivery risk.
Content Development & Delivery
Requirements Review: Review user and technical requirements for completeness and clarity.
Collateral: Create collateral for new offerings and evaluate existing offerings and content for accuracy and relevance.
Pre-Production Training: Deliver pre-production training sessions to evaluate product suitability and gather early feedback.
Live Demonstrations: Create live demonstration recordings for the Tenable product suite.
Content Review: Perform content reviews with peers in Services, Technical Support, Customer Success, and Product Management to ensure quality and alignment with customer needs, and act as the final technical approver for release.
Customer Experience: Periodically teach customer classes or deliver service engagements to obtain intimate knowledge of the customer experience.
Strategic Engagement & Support
Field Perspective: Collaborate with Professional Services peers to understand the field perspective on service and training offering requirements.
Customer & Partner Engagement: Engage with customers and partners to analyze market trends and the competitive landscape, and translate findings into portfolio decisions.
Problem Solving: Provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems while maintaining a positive attitude and positive working relationships, gathering information to support data-driven decisions.
Escalation Support: Act as the final escalation point for Customer Care, Services, and Product escalations relating to portfolio content that the Associate Services Architect cannot resolve.
Staying Current: Remain abreast of corporate direction and strategy, product roadmaps, messaging, and emerging trends in the security industry.
Project, People & Process
Delivery Oversight: Independently manage assigned projects and provide delivery oversight of team members’ projects to ensure delivery on schedule and on budget.
Mentoring: Mentor and develop Associate Services Architect colleagues, including setting expectations for the Associate role’s intake and review.
Process Improvement: Remain abreast of educational learning frameworks, content development approaches, and technologies that may reduce cost or shorten development timelines, and drive adoption where they do.
Other Duties: May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.
What You'll Need:
Experience
Security Foundations: 5+ years of overall experience in Information Security.
Vulnerability Management & Cybersecurity: 1+ years of experience in vulnerability management and broader cybersecurity operations, ideally utilizing enterprise assessment tools such as the Tenable product suite.
Services Experience: 3+ years of professional services, technical support, or sales engineering experience.
Curriculum Design: Proven experience designing and delivering technical curricula, training, and customer enablement programs, as well as leading others to do so.
Knowledge and Education
Education: B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
Technical Depth: In-depth knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and of TCP/IP networking.
Emerging Domains: Working knowledge of web application security, container security, cloud environments (AWS/Azure), and ICS/SCADA systems, with in-depth expertise in at least one.
Security Tools: Familiarity with security assessment tools such as Nessus, Kali Linux, and Metasploit.
Other Requirements
Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to senior internal and customer audiences.
Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including at a senior level.
Autonomy: Strong initiative and the ability to work remotely, both in a self-directed manner and as part of a geographically distributed team, setting direction for others without day-to-day supervision.
#LI-Hybrid
#LI-MS1 This is the base pay range for this position. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, location and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles, bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.
US Pay Range $145,000 — $193,666.67 USD
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