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The AVX Platform helps enterprises reduce risk by providing complete visibility and governance over every machine and AI agent identity, automating their lifecycle, controlling their access, and proving compliance at the speed business demands. Trusted by global enterprises across financial services, healthcare, and technology, AppViewX is recognized as a leader in the IDC 2026 MarketScape for Certificate Lifecycle Management and KuppingerCole’s 2025 Non-Human Identity Management Leadership Compass. For more information, users can visit appviewx.com. \nOur Values \nOur values define how we work, make decisions, and deliver for our customers and each other. Some reflect strengths deeply engrained in how we work. Others represent the standards we are committed to building together. \nWe Do What We Say: We own our commitments, communicate honestly about progress, and measure success by results, not activity. \nWe Are Trusted Experts: We continuously build our expertise, offer candid guidance, and focus on the outcomes our customers and colleagues need. \nWe Raise the Bar: We stay curious, challenge the status quo, take smart risks, and turn better ideas into meaningful results. \nWe Win Together: We share information, debate openly, commit together, and recognize that our success is connected to the success of our customers and teammates. \nIf these values reflect how you want to work and contribute, you will find an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at AppViewX. \nRole Overview:\nThe Principal Architect (Agentic Identity) is a newly created, specialized role within the Global Solutions Engineering team, chartered to build and own AppViewX's agentic identity security (AIS) category leadership in the field. This is a hybrid role by design: half strategic evangelist, half hands-on architect.\nAs Principal Architect, this person is AppViewX's most credible external voice on agentic identity - engaging CISOs and CTOs at strategic accounts, shaping the AIS narrative with analysts (Gartner, KuppingerCole, Forrester), and representing the company at industry events. As Principal Architect, this person personally owns the technical backbone of AIS pre-sales: the Use Case Map, demo environments, POC frameworks, and reference architectures that the rest of the global SE team (AMS, EMEA, APAC) builds on.\nThe role reports to the VP of Global Solutions Engineering and works in close partnership with SE Leads and product stakeholders to bring AIS to sell-ready maturity and beyond.\nKey Responsibilities:\nStrategic Field Leadership & Evangelism\nServe as AppViewX's foremost technical voice on agentic identity security, in the field and in public - conferences, webinars, analyst briefings, and published content.\nBuild and maintain analyst relationships (Gartner, KuppingerCole, Forrester) to shape how AIS is categorized and evaluated in the market.\nEngage CISO- and CTO-level stakeholders directly on the most strategic AIS opportunities, acting as an executive-level trusted advisor alongside regional SE leads and AEs.\nPartner with Sales and GTM leadership to shape Go to market and revenue acceleration strategy.\nPartner with Product Marketing and Product Management to shape AIS positioning, messaging, and roadmap priorities informed directly by field signal.\nTechnical Architecture & Enablement Ownership\nOwn and continuously evolve the AIS Use Case Map, Demo Runbook, and reference architectures used across the global SE organization.\nPersonally design and build flagship AIS demo environments and POC/POV frameworks, including integration patterns and success-criteria templates.\nPartner directly with AIS product engineering to translate roadmap into sellable, demoable capability, and drive AIS pre-sales enablement to sell-ready status and beyond.\nMaintain deep, current hands-on fluency with the AIS platform, including underlying agentic AI, non-human identity, and workload identity governance concepts.\nEnterprise Pre-Sales & POC Execution\nLead or co-lead the most strategic and complex AIS opportunities globally, engaging directly alongside AMS, EMEA, and APAC SE teams.\nArchitect and execute high-stakes AIS POCs/POVs, including technical prerequisites, integration scoping, success-criteria definition, and executive readout.\nAct as the final technical escalation point for AIS deals across regions, ensuring consistent, credible technical narrative in front of customers.\nTeam Enablement & Capability Building\nDesign and deliver AIS training curriculum and certification paths for the global SE team.\nBuild battlecards, FAQs, and RFP response libraries specific to agentic identity, keeping the team current against an emerging and fast-moving competitive landscape.\nMentor SE Leads and SEs on agentic identity concepts, positioning, and objection handling.\nProduct & Market Feedback Loop\nServe as a structured, credible voice of the field back to Product Management on AIS roadmap priorities, feature gaps, and competitive intelligence.\nTrack and analyze the emerging agentic identity competitive landscape, including both new entrants and IAM incumbents extending into the space.\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in enterprise security pre-sales, solutions architecture, or a senior technical leadership role, with direct exposure to identity, IAM, machine identity, or related security domains.\nStrong working knowledge of agentic AI systems, non-human/workload identity, and service account governance - and the ability to speak credibly to both engineering and executive audiences.\nDemonstrated track record as an external-facing technical evangelist: conference speaking, analyst engagement, or published thought leadership.\nProven hands-on architecture and build capability - this is not a strategy-only role; the person must be able to personally build and demo complex technical environments.\nDemonstrated experience engaging CISO- and CTO-level stakeholders on strategic, multi-stakeholder deals.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, able to move fluidly between deep technical detail and executive narrative.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.\nWillingness and ability to travel 30-50% for customer, analyst, and industry engagements.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior title or scope equivalent to Field CTO, Distinguished Engineer, or Principal Architect.\nExperience with identity governance platforms, OAuth/OIDC, IAG tools, or broader user/ machine identity ecosystems.\nExisting relationships with analyst firms (Gartner, KuppingerCole, Forrester) covering identity or AI security.\nExperience integrating or go-to-market planning around an acquired product line (M&A-driven category building).\nPublished thought leadership: blogs, whitepapers, podcasts, or conference talks on identity security or AI-driven risk.\nFamiliarity with the broader AppViewX platform: PKI, CLM, SSH, Kubernetes TLS automation, Code Signing, and PQC (ML-KEM/ML-DSA, FIPS 203/204/205).\nWhy AppViewX? \nAppViewX caters to a wide range of customers from Fortune 1000 companies, including six of the top ten global commercial banks, five of the top ten global media companies, and five of the top ten managed healthcare providers. 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