Solutions Consultant - Major Accounts - FSI & Tech

Palo Alto Networks; Tottenham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm in England is seeking a Solutions Consultant to provide technical leadership and support customers in their security transformation journey. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering cybersecurity solutions, influencing stakeholders, and creating impactful presentations. This full-time position offers an opportunity to work closely with large organizations and drive innovative security strategies.

Benefits

FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account

Mental and financial health resources

Personalized learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures.
• Prior experience in a pre‑sales role is ideal.
• Experience in selling or managing Network Security, SASE, SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas with strategic account plans.
• Providing technical leadership and guiding customer security transformation.
• Conducting discovery to understand technical and operational needs.

Skills

Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures

Delivering cybersecurity solutions

Influencing and gaining buy‑in from stakeholders

Creating and delivering technical presentations

Proficient in English

Job description

Solutions Consultant – Major Accounts – FSI & Tech

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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers, believing that the unique ideas of every member of our team contribute to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are lived through each of us everyday – from disruptive innovation and collaboration to execution, integrity, and inclusion. As a member of our team, you will shape the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and respect each employee as a unique individual. Our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported, including our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account, mental and financial health resources, and personalized learning opportunities.

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we serve customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guide your customer’s security transformation journey. You will define technical solutions that secure key business imperatives and ensure value realization, evangelizing our industry leadership across on‑prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s partner of choice.

Your Impact

Role

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions. You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• Influencing and gaining buy‑in from key stakeholders, either in a customer‑facing or internal role – prior experience in a pre‑sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions – Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi‑product solutions are preferred
• Proficient in English

Additional Information

Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand‑in‑hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures. You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [e-mail].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Seniority Level

Associate

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Computer and Network Security