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Why do you want to join our team?

F5 leads the market in building products to make every app run faster, smarter, and safer anywhere.

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we’re committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to build and support the most exciting missions in the world! You get the adventure and independence of working at a start-up without any of the financial risks because you are supported by a growing Fortune 1000 technology company.

Position Summary:

The Director, Technology Services (TS) Architecture is responsible for directing the program to develop, maintain, enhance, and evolve F5’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) across the company. This person must be passionate about relationship building, process improvement, technical and architectural excellence, and team development.

Attractions of the Job:

F5 TS is a dynamic organization supporting a rapidly growing and transforming business. We have a wide range of applications and architectures from large enterprise business applications to custom home-grown solutions to everything in-between. As the Director, TS Architecture, you will have the opportunity to drive innovative technology strategies across the company in support of F5’s business. If you like a rapidly growing, dynamic work environment where you are empowered to succeed, this is the place for you.

Primary Responsibilities and Activities:

• Leading the evolution and improvement of the EA practice, including the coordination of an appropriately balanced pursuit of enterprise information systems, data, technical, security and solution architecture viewpoints


• Aligning and driving the enterprise architect in support of the enterprise's business and TS strategies


• Develop, Maintain, and evolve F5’s EA reference architecture and capability map working across organizations in F5.


• Maintain, develop and evangelize the EA roadmap and align with F5 business priorities.


• Maintain relationships with product groups and CoPs within F5 to ensure EA is represented.


• Leading the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements


• Analyzing industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impacts on the enterprise


• Analyzing the current business and TS environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement


• Leading and facilitating the creation of governing principles to guide technical solution decision making for the enterprise


• Ensuring that the optimal governance structure and compliance activities are associated with EA compliance


• Leading the development of an implementation plan for the EA, based on business requirements and TS strategies; overseeing EA implementation, ongoing EA refinement activities, and the documentation of all EA design and analysis work


• Consulting with program teams to align solutions to architecture across all viewpoints


• Promoting the EA process, outcomes and results to the organization, including the enterprise's TS and business leaders; this includes assessing (through appropriate metrics) and communicating the achievement and impact of the EA, as well as leading the development and execution of an EA communication and education plan


• Manage and develop the EA team to align with F5 business needs

Select Key Operational Deliverables To Continue EA Maturity:

• EA Organizational Model


• EA Principles


• EA Roadmap


• Reference Architecture


• Business Capabilities

Other Responsibilities:

• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.


• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skill:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills


• Proven experience working with modern development practices including Agile-mindset, Scrum, and Kanban


• Strong leadership skills


• Excellent analytical skills


• Excellent planning and organizational skills


• Knowledge of all components of a holistic EA


• Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes


• Firm understanding of API designs and REST principles


• Proven track record of developing well thought-out systems / enterprise architectures


• Passionate about engineering excellence


• Demonstrated knowledge of building services in public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, GCP


• Essential understanding of secure systems design


• Strong knowledge and experience building microservice-based architectures.


• Basic knowledge of financial analysis and models


• Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.


• 15+ years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as technical architecture, network management, enterprise applications, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations).


• Past experience as a software developer a plus

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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