Solutions Architect

Who we are
DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com
Job summary
The Solutions Architect (SA) role is established to support DigiCert’s most strategic, complex, and high-impact opportunities by providing deep technical architecture, system design expertise, and cybersecurity thought leadership.
As DigiCert’s portfolio, customer scale, and innovation velocity continue to grow, the SA role ensures we can:
Design scalable, enterprise-grade trust architectures
Meet advanced customer requirements earlier in the sales cycle
Influence product direction with real-world architectural insight
Position DigiCert as a trusted authority in digital trust and cybersecurity
Help drive and adopt AI-driven capabilities
This role is intentionally distinct from Solutions Engineering and does not own day-to-day customer engagements. Instead, the SA is deployed selectively where architectural rigor, executive-level credibility, and cross-functional alignment are critical.
Expected Travel is 25-30%
Strategic Objectives
The Solutions Architect will:
Increase win rates in large, complex, and strategic opportunities
Improve architectural quality and scalability of customer solutions
Accelerate innovation adoption, including AI-driven capabilities
Strengthen DigiCert’s position as a trusted cybersecurity and digital trust advisor
Create leverage across GTM by enabling repeatable, high-quality solution patterns
What you will do
Core Responsibilities
1. Architecture & Design Leadership
Lead deep technical architecture sessions with enterprise customers, including whiteboarding and future-state design workshops
Design scalable, secure architectures leveraging DigiCert products and platforms
Address complex integration, automation, compliance, and lifecycle challenges
Validate system designs for performance, resilience, and security best practices
Understand strategic partners cybersecurity go to market, competencies & capabilities to align DigiCert solutions to partner practice areas and service offerings, enabling joint business outcomes.
Leverage Tech Alliance Partnerships such as Thales, F5, NetScaler to showcase integrations, leading to accelerated route to market.
2. Strategic Customer Engagement
Engage with senior cybersecurity stakeholders (CISO, security architecture, platform, and infrastructure leaders)
Act as DigiCert’s senior technical representative in high-value opportunities
Support executive-level security, trust, and risk discussions with prospects and customers
Technical evangelist, engaging with key stakeholders within our most strategic partners to gain mindshare, deepen relationships and accelerate partnerships.
3. Product & Engineering Alignment
Translate customer architecture requirements into actionable product feedback
Partner with Product Management to validate roadmap decisions against enterprise needs
Identify recurring architectural gaps and propose solution or product enhancements
Serve as a trusted GTM voice into Product and Engineering planning discussions
4. Innovation & AI Enablement
Collaborate with innovation teams on emerging capabilities, including AI-driven use cases
Evaluate and validate AI applications in trust, security automation, and operational workflows
Provide architectural guidance on responsible, secure, and