About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing identities through centralized authorization, making organizations more secure by seamlessly governing their interactions across the modern enterprise. Delinea allows organizations to apply context and intelligence throughout the identity lifecycle across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, and SaaS applications to eliminate identity-related threats. With intelligent authorization, Delinea provides the only platform that enables you to discover all identities, assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and immediately respond to identity threats in real-time. Delinea accelerates your teams’ adoption by deploying in weeks, not months, and makes them more productive by requiring 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor. With a guaranteed 99.99% uptime, the Delinea Platform is the most reliable identity security solution available. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to help us achieve our mission.
Position Overview
We are seeking an exceptional Sr. Director, World WW SE Specialists & Architecture Lead to lead our team of elite technical specialists and drive revenue expansion both to and beyond traditional security buyers. This role serves as the technical leader within Sales Engineering, building and leading a world-class organization that impacts strategic opportunities while mentoring the broader sales organization.
As the architectural authority for our worldwide sales engineering function, you will translate deep technical expertise into compelling business outcomes that resonate with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and line-of-business executives. You will lead specialized teams across Identity Security, Cloud Identity, Server PAM, and Platform architectures while establishing Delinea as the definitive voice in cloud-native identity and access management solutions.
This is a revenue-driving leadership role that requires exceptional technical depth, proven team-building capabilities, executive communication skills, and the strategic vision to position Delinea's solutions across our customers’ entire IT organization.
What You'll Do:
Technical Leadership & Revenue Impact
Expand Market Reach: Develop and execute strategies to position Delinea solutions beyond the CISO to CIO, CTO, and line-of-business stakeholders, demonstrating clear business value for cloud-native and AI-driven initiatives
Thought Leadership: Establish Delinea as the authoritative voice in identity-centric security architectures, particularly around cloud-native environments, Zero Trust implementations, and emerging use cases like Agentic AI
Team Leadership & Development
Build Elite Technical Teams: Recruit, develop, and retain world-class solution architects and technical specialists across global markets, creating clear career progression paths and fostering psychological safety
Global Team Management: Lead specialized architect teams including Identity Security Architects, Cloud Identity Architects, Server PAM Architects, and Platform Specialists across worldwide markets
Strategic Architecture & Innovation
Industry Engagement: Represent Delinea at industry conferences, customer advisory boards, and analyst briefings, building market credibility for our architectural approach
What You'll Bring:
Leadership & Experience
Technical Expertise
Expertise in authentication protocols including SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, LDAP, Kerberos, and PKI
Business & Communication Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Competitive experience with direct knowledge of PAM/IAM competitive landscape including CyberArk, Okta, Ping Identity, SailPoint, and other market participants
Technical certifications relevant to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), security frameworks, or identity technologies
Success Metrics
Delinea Culture & Benefits:
Why work at Delinea?
We’re passionate problem-solvers doing our part to make the world a safer place.
We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.
At Delinea, our core values are STRONG—Spirited – Trust – Respect – Ownership – Nimble – Global – and guide our behaviors and success. We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.
We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful equity and bonus program, and excellent benefits, including a full suite of medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous discretionary time off (DTO), and paid company holidays. We support all families with paid leave for new birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster-to-adopt primary caregivers.
Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.
