Consulting Architect - Security/SIEM (Canberra)

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role You will have the opportunity to work with tremendous Services, Engineering and Sales teams and wear many hats. This is a critical role, as Consultants have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers. What You Will Be Doing We are looking for a delivery architect that demonstrates visionary leadership by orchestrating and implementing Elastic solutions, generating customer business value from our products. Grouping responsibilities in the following areas: Assess and Design Thoroughly analyze and understand customer business pain points and intricate technical challenges Gather requirements in complex enterprise customer environments Master Elastic solution architectural design on platforms integrating with other enterprise technologies Create and build out customer road maps Demonstrate technical authority by proficiently articulating complex technical solutions in clear language, effectively persuading the audience to embrace recommended best practices while presenting and delivering Elastic's optimal solutions. Implement and Deliver Lead technology workshops that include hands-on mentoring, whiteboarding, and solution development Deliver outcome-based solutions Lead, hands-on-deploy (from data onboarding, configuration, visualizations, alerting), and seamlessly integrate Elastic products and APIs into intricate platform architectures, harnessing years of technical expertise Master data modeling, develop and optimize queries, tune and scale clusters, prioritizing fast search and analytics at scale Solve our customers’ most challenging platform, configuration, data and cyber security problems Grow and Expand Orchestrate and implement capacity planning in mission-critical environments Perform technical audits, upgrades, platform migrations, and use-case expansion Work with and guide our customers along their ever-maturing Cyber journey Influence and Collaborate Work closely with the Elastic Engineering, Product Management, and Support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions, and product defects Engage with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns Be a mentor/coach for your fellow Elastic consultants Demonstrated ability to communicate to a variety of stakeholders up to the C-suite level What You Bring Minimum of 5 years as a Consulting Architect or senior IT functional leadership experience Solid experience deploying Elastic Security solutions or similar SIEM domains (Splunk, ArcSight, IBM QRadar). Alternatively, at least 2 years' experience working as a Security Analyst, utilizing SIEM or endpoint security applications in a Threat Detection and response-focused role Australian security clearance (NV1 minimum) is mandatory. History of working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, presentation and communications skills Ability to lead meetings with project owners and C-level stakeholders. Ability to articulate the business value of an outcome-based delivery while being technically savvy and hands-on Demonstrated experience of technical leadership throughout project lifecycles Knowledge of the MITRE AT