It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! _We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business._ **Corporate Overview** Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web. We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity. Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint. **The Role Overview** The Lead Enterprise Applications Architect will define the architecture, integration strategies, and automation frameworks that align with business objectives. This role will collaborate closely with business applications developers, business leaders, and cross-functional teams to ensure applications are scalable, secure, and efficient while minimizing technical debt and enhancing operational agility. Additionally, the architect will be responsible for designing and optimizing the data warehouse architecture to support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence needs, ensuring data consistency, scalability, and performance. **Key Responsibilities** : + **Enterprise Architecture & Strategy:** Define and implement architectural standards and best practices for business applications to ensure scalability, security, and performance. + **Design and architect solutions** that enable seamless interoperability across Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Customer Success, Billing, and Data Infrastructure systems. + **Optimize Business Processes & Systems: S** tandardize and modernize the underlying systems supporting Demand-to-Lead, Lead-to-Opportunity, Opportunity-to-Quote, Quote-to-Order, and Order-to-Cash processes—ensuring operational efficiency, data integrity, and regulatory compliance across platforms. + **Automation & Optimization:** Leverage automation to improve system efficiencies, enhance workflows, and drive operational excellence. + **Technology Evaluation & Roadmap:** Assess emerging technologies, recommend solutions, and develop roadmaps for application modernization and digital transformation. + **Data Warehouse Architecture:** Design and implement scalable data warehouse architecture that supports enterprise-wide analytics, reporting, and business intelligence initiatives. + **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Ensure data integrity, security, and performance by defining best practices for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data governance, and cloud-based data warehousing solutions. + **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner with IT, business stakeholders, and development teams to align technology solutions with business needs. + **Performance & Scalability:** Identify bottlenecks, optimize system performance, and ensure solutions are designed for future growth. **Qualifications & Experience:** + Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. + 10+ years of experience with end-to-end business processes, spanning Demand to Lead, Lead to Opportunity, Opportunity to Quote, Quote to Order, Order to Cash. + 10+ years of experience in enterprise application architecture, system integration, and cloud-based solutions. + Deep expertise in Salesforce CRM, CPQ, and ERP systems, with a focus on designing, implementing, and optimizing end-to-end business processes that drive revenue operations, sales efficiency, and financial accuracy. + Strong knowledge of API management, microservices architecture, and middleware technologies. + Experience with Channel Partner Integration, including solutions for eCommerce, B2B transactions, and partner management with companies like Ingram. + Hands-on experience with automation, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines. + Solid understanding of data architecture, security protocols, and compliance frameworks. + Proven ability to develop technology roadmaps, lead architectural governance, and influence executive decision-making. + Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. + Extensive experience in data warehouse architecture with a deep understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, and cloud-based data warehousing solutions. **Why Proofpoint** Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint \#LI-AN2 _If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!_ Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option. **Base Pay Ranges:** SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area: Base Pay Range: 161,625.00 - 237,050.00 USD California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska: Base Pay Range: 132,225.00 - 193,930.00 USD All other cities and states excluding those listed above: Base Pay Range: 120,525.00 - 176,770.00 USD Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams. To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos. We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees. Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide. We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace. At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to: + Build and enhance our proven security platform + Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture + Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel + Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges   We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner. Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.