Specialist Solutions Architect (Security)

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Principal AI Security Specialist About the Role Zscaler is seeking an experienced AI Security Specialist to help customers securely adopt and operationalize AI across the enterprise. This role is designed for a customer-facing technical expert who combines the consultative strengths of a Solutions Engineer / Solutions Consultant with deep expertise in AI, GenAI architectures, and AI security. The AI Security Specialist will partner closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and customers to configure, demonstrate, and position Zscaler’s AI security solutions. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor on secure AI adoption, helping customers understand how to protect data, enforce policy, reduce risk, and enable safe use of AI technologies across users, applications, and workflows. This is a highly strategic, technical, and field-facing role for someone who can engage in executive conversations, lead architect

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. Within the team, Partner Applied AI Architects work with strategic partners—including global and regional system integrators, consulting and advisory firms, and technology partners—to extend OpenAI’s technical reach and help partners deliver high-quality AI solutions for our joint customers. We bring together technical strategy, partner enablement, architecture expertise, and practical deployment experience, working closely with Partnerships, Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As a Partner Applied AI Architect , you will be a senior technical advisor to a portfolio of strategic partners and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership and delivery organizations. You will shape how partners build practices around OpenAI, develop solutions using our products, and take joint customers from AI opportunity and technical evaluation through production adoption and measurable business impact. You will own the technical strategy and architecture across partner engagements involving ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In close partnership with the Revenue Partnerships team, you will translate joint business priorities into technical strategies, solution patterns, enablement plans, and a focused portfolio of high-value customer opportunities. You will work directly with partners on strategic customer engagements—

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect

About the Team The Applied AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As the Manager of Applied AI Architects in Tokyo, you will lead a team of senior technical leaders responsible for the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value for OpenAI's largest and most complex customers across Japan. Your team will act as the “CTO of the book of business,” partnering with customer executives and technical teams from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will set the operating model for how Applied AI Architects own technical account plans across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In close partnership with Sales leadership and Account Directors, you will help prioritize customer portfolios, allocate technical resources, and ensure business priorities translate into focused use cases, credible architectures, actionable adoption roadmaps, and durable customer value and growth. You will remain accountable for the team's technical outcomes while developing its people and bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, research, and partners. You will serve as an executive technical sponsor for critical engagements, a senior voice of the customer inside OpenAI, and a cross-functional leader who can move confidently between Japan strategy, executive decision-making, architectural depth, and hands-on coaching. In t

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Principal Specialist Sales Engineer - Sec Ops Location: Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid) Department: Global Speciality Sales Employment Type: Full-Time About the Role We are looking for a Principal Specialist Sales Engineer to join our growing Japan Go-to-Market team, based out of our Tokyo office (Hybrid) . In this high-impact specialist role, you will report to the Sales Engineering leadership within the Security Operations team, acting as a domain expert for our Exposure Management portfolio. The Zscaler Sales and Go-to-Market team is a global group of professionals who are passionate about delighting our customers, nurturing trusted partnerships, and driving a secure, cloud-enabled digital transformation across Japan and the broader APJ region. You will partner closely with Enterprise Account Executives, Solution Architects, Customer Success, and our local channel partner ecosystem to demonstrate the value of Zscaler's cutting-edg

Req: FEQ427R624 Location: Tokyo, Japan Language Requirements: Fluent Japanese required; Business-level English preferred As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Warehousing, you will guide customers in their cloud data warehousing transformation with Databricks which span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, that requires hands-on production experience with large-scale data warehousing technologies and lakehouse architecture. SSAs help customers through evaluations and successful production planning for their business intelligence workloads while aligning their technical roadmap for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs and establish yourself in the data warehousing specialty - including performance tuning, data modeling, winning evaluations, architecture design, and production migration planning. The impact you will have: Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful cloud transformations on large-scale data warehousing workloads - ranging from evaluation to architecture design to production deployment Prove the value of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for customer workloads by architecting production workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization Become a technical expert in an area such as data warehousing evaluations or helping set up successful workload migrations Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing and performance, and tuning workloads for production Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations) Contribute to the Databricks Communit