At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Business/Job Title: Solution Architect - Identity
Position Summary
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.
As a Solution Architect - Identity, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to analyze business requirements, assess technical feasibility, and recommend solutions in alignment with strategic roadmaps across the organization. You will collaborate with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and Software Engineers to envision, design, and build solutions and drive their execution. You will engage with Product Management, Business Stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, and other delivery teams to ensure business outcomes are achieved. Join us in shaping the future of our organization, through innovative solution design and implementation.
What You’ll Do
- Applies advanced technical principles, techniques, theories and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and theories.
- Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
- Works toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives. Assignments are often self-initiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
- Develops advanced technological ideas and guides their solution architecture into a final product.
- Ensures alignment between EA roadmap and solutions being delivered.
- Collaborates with delivery teams during application design, assisting product teams with interoperability, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, technology and security risks.
- Describes the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of the solution to business stakeholders.
- Designs solutions in multiple cloud service providers in IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS
- Owns and drives proof-of-concept and discovery efforts.
- Participates in defining platform standards.
- Develop and evolve solution architecture roadmaps and portfolios.
- Partners with engineers to troubleshoot and provide solutions for production issues.
- Participate in vendor corrective action meetings as required, providing suggestions or alternatives to solve problems.
- Prepares and present designs and any known exceptions to Architecture Review Board (ARB)
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
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.
What You’ll Bring
- Experienced with modern interface patterns and techniques.
- High level of expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions: Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and managing IAM solutions such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) using technologies like Okta, Azure AD, SailPoint or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in Security Protocols and Standards: In-depth knowledge of security protocols and standards such as OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect, and LDAP. Ability to ensure compliance with security policies and industry regulations, and to implement best practices for identity governance and administration.
- Integration and Interoperability Skills: Strong capabilities in integrating IAM solutions with various enterprise systems and applications, including cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), on-premises systems, and third-party applications. Experience with API management and developing custom connectors to facilitate seamless interoperability, especially with platforms like SailPoint.
- Experience with one or more cloud service providers and their respective environments
- Database and data modeling experience and understanding of relational database concepts.
- Advanced skills in paradigms such as Object Oriented, Functional, or Event Driven.
- Experienced with manipulating large datasets across heterogeneous systems, and with Data Integration technologies and solutions.
- Proficiency in Event-Driven architectures, enabling the design of responsive and scalable systems.
- Experience in enterprise architecture frameworks and one or more Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools
- Experience with agile software development processes
- Proven ability to design solutions that are scalable, maintainable and adhere to policies, standards, and best practices.
- Experience working with multiple, large enterprise platforms and a diverse technology environment
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, communication, planning, problem solving, trouble shooting, facilitation and organization skills.
- Strong influencing, coaching, mentoring and leadership skills
- Deep analytical skills with meticulous attention to detail, enabling the identification and resolution of complex technical challenges.
- Collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams, actively contributing to identifying business requirements and assessing technical feasibility.
- Commitment to staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, ensuring the organization remains at the forefront of innovation.
Qualifications
- BS/BA or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in a technical role in Information Technology
- Minimum 8+ years of experience as a software engineer or solutions architect. Experience with engineering technology components is a plus.
- 7+ years of experience in with designing and deploying IAM solutions
F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.
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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $148,964.00 - $223,446.00
F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.
