Director of IT Strategy & Architecture

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Position Summary 

The Director of IT Strategy & Architecture is a newly created role within the Information Technology team, reporting to the CIO, designed to provide strategic and operational leverage across Forcepoint’s global IT team. Supporting a global SaaS security software company, this position ensures IT delivers measurable business value and aligns our Enterprise Architecture roadmap with corporate goals.

The primary responsibility is to take inputs to define IT’s north-star for Enterprise Architecture and align all IT functions and business groups to execute on that vision. The role will help optimize our environments, consolidate systems and ratify integrations.  

As a newly established position, this role will shape how IT operates at scale - bringing structure, discipline, and visibility across programs, spend, and governance. Acting as a trusted advisor to the CIO and IT leadership, this individual is proactive in identifying opportunities, raising risks, and ensuring the right issues receive executive attention. They partner closely with IT leadership team members, consolidating their updates, priorities, and risks into a unified status view for the CIO. They also serve as IT’s storyteller - creating compelling content, reports, and presentations that showcase IT’s achievements, position the organization as a strategic enabler, and demonstrate tangible business value. 

Key Responsibilities 

Strategic Leadership, Architecture, AI and Alignment 

• Partner with the CIO to define and execute the IT strategic roadmap in alignment with company objectives, global growth, and security priorities. 

• Serve as a trusted advisor and integrator for the CIO, proactively raising risks, surfacing issues, and ensuring decisions are well-informed and timely. 

• Partner with all IT direct reports, ensuring their workstreams are aligned, interdependencies are managed, and consolidated status is rolled up to the CIO. 

• Leverage industry data and benchmarks (e.g., Gartner research, vendor insights) to inform IT decision-making, strengthen business cases, and ensure investments align with external best practices. 

• Define and institutionalize a northstar application architecture; publish a ~3year roadmap and a 4–6 quarter execution plan aligned to our